Managing Emotions in the Workplace: Do Positive and Negative Attitudes Drive Performance? You know the type: coworkers who never have anything positive to say‚ whether at the weekly staff meeting or in the cafeteria line. They can suck the energy from a brainstorming session with a few choice comments. Their bad mood frequently puts others in one‚ too. Their negativity can contaminate even good news. "We engage in emotional contagion‚" says Sigal Barsade‚ a Wharton management professor who studies
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The term "emotional intelligence" debuted in several scientific articles written by John D. Mayer and Peter Salovey during the early 1990s. Emotional intelligence is defined as the compilation of four kinds of skills: perceiving and expressing emotions‚ understanding emotions‚ using emotions‚ and managing emotions. "Emotional intelligence matters twice as much as technical and analytical skills combined for star performances‚" Goleman writes. "And the higher people move up in the company‚ the more
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Happiness is one of many human emotions. Life events‚ including both external and internal stimuli often elicit a state of emotional happiness. Individual’s natural temperament‚ age‚ gender‚ culture‚ and religious affiliation are all mitigating factors in the way individual’s respond to life’s circumstances and in turn the changes in their happiness levels. Furthermore‚ the need to find happiness‚ fulfilment and overcome obstacles in life is an inherent human trait. Myers (2000) draws on several
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Emotional intelligence and its relationship to transformational leadership and key project manager competences Summary During the article‚ Nicholas Clarke showed a few studies that proved the important role of emotional intelligent in leadership effectiveness: - Leban and Zulauf (2004) study: The study was obtained from 24 project managers and their related projects in six different organization from a wide range of industries. The data showed the transformational leadership had an important
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Recruiting the best: using Emotional Intelligence as a selection criteria. Pradeepa Wijetunge PhD Librarian University of Peradeniya Peradeniya Sri Lanka E-mail:librarian@pdn.ac.lk Every business person knows a story about a highly intelligent‚ highly skilled executive who was promoted into a leadership position only to fail at the job. And they also know a story about someone with solid-but not extraordinary-intellectual abilities and technical skills who was promoted into a similar position
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TOSHIBA Emotional Eating [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] 1. Introduction a. What is emotional eating? “Emotional eating is using food to make yourself feel better-eating to fill emotional needs‚ rather than eating to fill your stomach” (2013‚ Smith and Segal). b. Recognizing what
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How smart are you? While this question may be seemingly simple to answer‚ it is an interesting question because it suggests someone’s level of mental competence can be measured. If there is an answer to this question‚ it suggests that a person’s level of smartness or intelligence can be found pretty straightforwardly by a score on a measurement of intelligence such as an IQ test. Find a pen or pencil‚ have a seat‚ and take an IQ test. Even better‚ look one up on the internet. Hours…or even minutes
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Emotional Wellness. Part1: reflection. * My academic level of intelligence * My grades are nice and high * The sense of welcome and comfort in the school * My friends * My new teacher are reliable * School spirit weeks‚ activities‚ sports. * The way we are treated as mature adults * The amount of time spent in classes is pretty accurate; allows us to learn more in a shorter period of time. * There is three more years before school is done‚ and now I can enter
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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence Nyal Navales Emotional Intelligence PSY/301 Yulian Cordero 3/26/13 Only until recently‚ psychologist was able to realize the importance of Emotional Intelligence. To better understand what emotional intelligence means is to understand each word separately. What is Emotion? This can be easily found in a dictionary as so “an affective state of consciousness in which joy‚ sorrow‚ fear‚ hate‚ or the like‚ is experiences‚ as distinguished from cognitive
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What is emotional labour? Defined by the author Bryman (2004) emotional labour is the state of affairs between employees as part of their working roles and the need to express feelings and emotions as part of their work. The types of emotions can be delivered in a desirable way or undesirable way‚ in other words positive or negative. Why is emotional labour so important? As stated in the article written by Bryman (2004) the importance of promoting emotional labour is because
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