The model suggests that organizational norms establish emotion thresholds that may be crossed when employees feel anger.

Societal, occupational, and organizational norms.

These rules are guidelines of meanings for different experiences instead of guidelines for organizational norms.

In agriculture the contract responsibility system was adopted as the organizational norm for the entire country, and the commune structure was largely dismantled.

Yet, the root of the work-life conflict may come from the organizational norms and ideologies.

The dominant ideology is what drives organizational power and creates organizational norms.

Workplace policies, especially regarding the balance between family/life and work, create an organizational norm in which employees must fall into.

Superficially, organizational rewards can imply one organizational norm but at the deepest level imply something completely different.

However, adherence to such organizational norms may belie the true internal state of the individual worker.

This could conflict with organizational norms concerning the safety of employees in the workplace.