IS Learning: The Impact of Gender and Team Emotional Intelligence

In university settings, dysfunction in teamwork often challenges problem-based learning in IS projects. Researchers of IS Education have largely overlooked Team Emotional Intelligence (TEI), which offers a collective cognitive skill that may benefit the student learning experience. Hypothesized are four dimensions of emotional intelligence (EI) that influence perceived effectiveness in IS learning teams. This paper proposes a model that explains how these four dimensions influence perceived team effectiveness and how gender affects this relationship. A survey administered to 384 students resulting in 94 IS learning teams produced regression (and moderated regression) results showing that gender, along with two TEI dimensions (awareness and management of one’s own emotion) predict team effectiveness. Significant results suggest gender differences in the relationship between a team member’s awareness of his or her own emotions, management of others’ emotions, and team effectiveness. These findings suggest IS educators should focus on targeted interventions that may help to foster the development of emotionally intelligent IS learning teams. Most prominently, gender plays an important role for emotional intelligence competencies, where differences exist in awareness of one’s own emotions and management of others’ emotions among student learning teams

Explaining Implicit and Explicit Affective Linkages in IT Teams: Facial Recognition, Emotional Intelligence, and Affective Tone

Over 80 percent of task work in organizations is performed by teams. Most teams operate in a more fluid, dynamic, and complex environment than in the past. As a result, a growing body of research is beginning to focus on how teams’ emotional well-being can benefit the effectiveness of workplace team efforts. These teams are required to be adaptive, to operate in ill-structured environments, and to rely on technology more than ever before. However, teams have become so ubiquitous that many organizations and managers take them for granted and assume they will be effective and productive. Because of the increased use of team work and the lack of sufficient organizational and managerial sufficient best practices for teams, more research is required. Team Emotional Intelligence (TEI) is a collective skill that has been shown to benefit team performance. However, measures for TEI are relatively new and have not been widely studied. Results show TEI is a viable skill that affects performance in IT teams. In technology-rich environments, the teams’ coordination can vary on levels of the expertise needed when TEI behaviors are employed. Cooperative norms play an important role in team interactions and influence TEI. Physiological measures of team emotional contagion and TEI, as well as psychometric measures of team affective tone results show causal affective linkages in the emotional convergence model. These results suggest that combined physiological and psychometric measures of team emotion behavior provide explanatory power for these linkages in teams during IS technology system use. These findings offer new insights into the emotional states of IS teams that may advance the understanding team behaviors for improved performance outcomes and contribute to the NeuroIS literature

Psychophysiological Measures of Cognitive Absorption

Cognitive absorption (CA) corresponds to a state of deep involvement with a software program. CA has widely been studied over the last decade in the IT literature using psychometric instruments. Measuring ongoing CA with psychometric tools requires interrupting a subject’s ongoing usage behavior to self-evaluate their level of absorption. Such interruptions may alter or contaminate the very CA state the researcher us attempting to measure. To circumvent this problem, we are investigating the effectiveness of psychophysiological measures of cognitive absorption. This paper reports preliminary results from an ongoing research project by looking at the correlation between electrodermal activity (EDA) and several dimensions of the CA construct

Understanding the Relative Influence of Several Factors in ERP Simulation Performance: An Exploration of Ecological Validity

This study evaluates the relative factors that influence business simulation game outcomes through exploring ecological validity. A regression model analysis was conducted to access the impact of real-world industry factors that influence performance outcomes in a business simulation game. The factors represent a composite of typical company industry measures to evaluate profitability. The study extends beyond prior literature performance outcome measures of return on investment (ROI), and return on assets (ROA) to evaluate business simulation performance. The results showed that 77% of the variance associated with performance outcome is explained by this study’s independent variables. The implications for this study is the first of a two-part research effort to examine the question of whether the ERP business simulation game, ERPSim exhibits natural market structures. The part one study provides the basis to understand the factors that influence profitability in the simulation game. These results lay the ground work to complete the ecological validation of the ERPSim. The findings strongly indicate important real-world factors to predict profitability outcomes in the ERPSim business simulation game. Thus, providing evidence to compare business simulation market share and profitability levels between ERPSim and PIMS (Profit Impact of Marketing Strategies) manufacturing industry project data for eco-logical validity

Studies of environmental plutonium and other transuranics in desert ecosystems : Nevada Applied Ecology Group Progress report...

Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet.Latest issue consulted: NVO-159 (March 1976).Description based on: NVO-159 (March 1976); title from title page

The radioecology of plutonium and other transuranics in desert environments : Nevada Applied Ecology Group progress report...

Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet.Latest issue consulted: NVO-153 (June 1975).Description based on: NVO-153 (June 1975); title from title page

Writing lives : American biography and autobiography /

Introduction / Hans Bak and Hans Krabbendam; PART I: AUTOBIOGRAPHY. John Fitch and the origins of American autobiography / Stephen C. Arch; The Franklin-Stein monster: ventriloquism and missing persons in American autobiography / Richard Hardack; Posthumous life and the alibi of autobiography: the Adams memorial / Duco van Oostrum; Mary Antin's "Biomythography" / Kathleen Ashley; (Im)possible lives: Zelda Fitzgerald's 'Save me the waltz' as surrealist autobiography / Susan Castillo; Competing notions of American and artistic identity in visual and written autobiographies in the 1930s and early 1940s / Donna M. Cassidy; 'Dust tracks on a road': Zora Neale Hurston's autobiography and the rhetoric of "Feather-bed resistance" / Nicole E. Reith; Howard Fast and the shape of the political memoir / David Seed; From memories of childhood to intellectual memoirs, or from Mary McCarthy to "Mary McCarthy" / Isabel Durán; "True story" novels as autobiography: the influence of 'the shadow' on Jack Kerouac's 'Doctor Sax' / Ann Charters; Representing shame / Madeleine Sorapure; The autobiography of guilt: Tim O'Brien and Vietnam / Mary A. McCay; Ethnicities: the American self-tellings of Leslie Marmon Silko, Richard Rodriguez, Darryl Pinckney, and Garrett Hongo / A. Robert Lee; Native American autobiography as "Art" / Hartwig Isernhagen; Travel writing as autobiography: the case of Eddy L. Harris / Ineke Bockting;PART II: BIOGRAPHY. Biography as interdisciplinary art / Joan D. Hedrick; Forever riding with Stonewall: three approaches to Henry Kyd Douglas / Anneke Leenhouts; The Cabot lodges: A family portrait / Alfons Lammers; Making biography out of Mencken / Fred Hobson; Radical feminist or handmaiden? Fact and fiction in Susan Glaspell's life / Barbara Ozieblo; The quest for Bogart / Jeffrey Meyers; The missing civil rights in Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiographies / Mieke van Thoor; "Playing with the news": Jonathan Daniels on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman / Hans Veldman; Discontinuity and coherence in the short biography: Arthur J. Goldberg and the OSS Labor Branch / Bob Reinalda; Creating a group identity: the New York intellectuals / Tity de Vries; Jimmy Carter: the missionary man / Douglas Brinkley; Oral biography in print and broadcast / David K. Dunaway; A telling existence: writing gay biography / Axel Nissen; 'Still' telling women's lives / Linda Wagner-Martin; notes on contributors; Index