How Team Emotional Intelligence Connects to Task Performance: A Network Approach

Title
How Team Emotional Intelligence Connects to Task Performance: A Network Approach
Publication Date
2020-08-01
Author(s)
Zhang, Hui-Hua
Ding, Cody
Schutte, Nicola S
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3294-7659
Email: nschutte@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:nschutte
Li, Rui
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sage Publications, Inc
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.1177/1046496419889660
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/29413
Abstract
Drawing on a social network analysis, we examined the role of social network structure (i.e., friendship network density) as a mediating factor linking team average emotional intelligence (EI) with team task performance and how this relationship is influenced by intrateam trust. The results from 97 teams (466 team members) working on student projects in a business university over a semester indicated that teams with higher average EI exhibit a higher density of friendship networks and better team task performance in contexts characterized by higher intrateam trust. The study increases our understanding of the mechanism through which EI at the team level may affect team performance and provides new insights into how team managers and members might enhance the effectiveness of project teams.
Link
Citation
Small Group Research, 51(4), p. 492-516
ISSN
1552-8278
1046-4964
Start page
492
End page
516

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