Ioannis Tsaousis, and Ioannis Nikolaou (2005), Exploring the relationship of emotional intelligence with physical and psychological health functioning, Stress and Health, Wiley InterScience
The authors of this article are wanting to find the existence of any relationship between Emotional Intelligence and two types of health namely physical and psychological. In order to do this they conduct 2 studies, one under control condition and one under normal condition. Study 1 consists of two parts each having a questionnaire, one of them being The Traits Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire and the other one ...view middle of the document...
Gardenswartz Lee, Cherbosque Jorge, and Rowe Anita(2010), Emotional Intelligence and Diversity A Model for Differences in the Workplace, Journal of Psychological Issues in Organizational Culture
The main idea behind the article is given by its topic, to find how is emotional intelligence and diversity related. In today’s business world in which diversity is key and mantra of every organization it becomes important for managers to manage diversity in their organization and make the most of it. The author as in every article explains what is EQ and Diversity. Also talks about Affirmative introspection, Self-governance, Intercultural literacy and Social architecting.
To make it little interesting the authors use a diagram to show the 4 different layers of diversity which are Personality, Internal Dimensions, External Dimensions and Organizational Dimensions, another diagram explains how emotional intelligence and diversity work together.
There is a discussion about the important aspects of the emotional intelligence and diversity model on 3 levels namely Individual where it about developing the skills and competencies, Team deals with developing and making norms that help create emotional intelligent teams and Organization this enables team to use diversity to create synergetic solutions to the problems. To make it easy to understand authors use table to give examples of behaviors and norms that an organization following emotional intelligence and diversity model would indulge or practice.
This articles gives an insight on the importance of not only having diversity at work place but also the importance to maintain the balance and achieving the goal.
Tasler, Nick and Bradberry, Dr. Travis (2009), Emotional Intelligence: Skills Worth Learning, Businessweek March 27,2009.
This article speaks about the importance and worth of learning as well as developing the skill of Emotional Intelligence, also discussed here is increase in percentage of EQ scores every year 2003 -2007. The emotional intelligence grew from 13.7% in 2003 to 18.3% in 2007 also there was decrease in other negative behaviors such as frustration, anger influencing behavior dropped from 31 % to 14%. The percentage may be looking small but when it is applied on the U.S. population it gives a number 9 million which says it all. The samples used are not trained to develop emotional intelligence, but still the number kept going up. This implies that the more you discuss with coworkers you learn more about emotions, and become more empathic towards others. But there was a downfall in the number in 2008 when compared to 2007, the reason for decrease in the numbers can be people lost their own skill in order to teach others how to develop the skill of emotional intelligence. In 2008 there were more number of people suffering from negative effects than the previous few years, this study also proved that the skill of emotional intelligence can be Learned and Unlearned. The skill...