The Social Network

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The Effects of Emotions,
Attitudes and Stress on the Workplace

A movie review analysis on The Social Network.

Organizational Behaviour Prepared by:
Prepared for: Shirley Rose Jordan Rahmani
Due Date: April 11, 2011 Jennifer McNeil Bryan Bairstow Brad Tomanik

Executive Summary

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Article #1: Evidence that Emotional Intelligence is Related to job performance and affect and attitudes at work. Written by Paul N. Lopes, Daisy Grewa, Jessica Kadis, Michelle Gall and Peter Salovey. This article, written by five authors from the University of Oviedo in Spain, was produced as a testing on the general hypothesis that “emotional intelligence is related to company indicators of job performance, as well as rating of interpersonal facilitation and affect and attitudes at work.” (p. 133). They started out by conducting a test on 44 workers, all of which worked for “Fortune 400 Insurance”. They composed of clerical/administrative employees and business analysts. One topic they touched on while creating their hypothesis was the concept that “The ability to perceive emotions in oneself and others entails identifying internal cues of emotional experience and emotional information…” (P.132). this hypothesis carries hand in hand, the concept our study is striving to prove. The article further supports emotional perception by stating that emotional intelligence can be directly related to such things as: “Company rank, percent merit increase and ratings of interpersonal facilitation...” (p. 137).

Article #2: Work Stress and Job Performance. Written by Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada released this article in 2007, detailing some key pin points in job stress, how it is created, and how it affects ones

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