Effects of Brainstorming or Short-Term Incubation on Divergent Production in Problem-Solving

Thls study was designed to lnvestigate differences in divergent production performance among students who were involved in a brainstorming sesslon r,rhlle ineubatlng and subJects who only incubated. Effeets of the treatments !\u27Iere assessed by subJect6f responses on a written problem solving inventory. Anal-ysls of variance indicated that the performance of subjects who rrrere tralned in dlvergent productior, i.e., brainsLorming, was greater thal that of subjects who were not tralned ln divergent production. The incubation treatment, however, dld not seem to influence subjectsr divergent production scores significantly. New directions are proposed to study effects of various attributes of incubatlon as compared with certain attrlbutes of creativity

Workgroup emotional intelligence: Scale development and relationship to team process effectiveness and goal focus

Over the last decade, ambitious claims have been made in the management literature about the contribution of emotional intelligence to success and performance. Writers in this genre have predicted that individuals with high emotional intelligence perform better in all aspects of management. This paper outlines the development of a new emotional intelligence measure, the Workgroup Emotional Intelligence Profile, Version 3 (WEIP-3), which was designed specifically to profile the emotional intelligence of individuals in work teams. We applied the scale in a study of the link between emotional intelligence and two measures of team performance: team process effectiveness and team goal focus. The results suggest that the average level of emotional intelligence of team members, as measured by the WEIP-3, is reflected in the initial performance of teams. In our study, low emotional intelligence teams initially performed at a lower level than the high emotional intelligence teams. Over time, however, teams with low average emotional intelligence raised their performance to match that of teams with high emotional intelligence