The relationships among trait emotional intelligence (EI), personality, IQ and sex were investigated in a sample of 585 employees (478 males, 107 females). Participants completed the WatsonGlaser Critical Thinking Appraisal, the Bar-On Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) and the...

This paper reports on two studies that investigated the relationship between the Big Five personality traits, self-estimates of intelligence (SEI), and scores on two psychometrically validated intelligence tests. In study 1 a total of 100 participants completed the NEO-PI-R, the Wonderlic...

Male and female managers, at or beyond a specified managerial level, were required to rate their subordinate report staff on six personalized key result area (KRA) ratings, 32 management practices, common to all staff, and a weighted overall score. Company wide data were collected from 810...

Purpose – To examine how people weigh information when making people decisions, specifically promotion or redundancy, at work. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 183 working adults completed two questionnaires that required them to rate 16 vignettes describing hypothetical people....

Purpose – The study which this paper documents aimed to test nine hypotheses through the use of content analysis of gender stereotypes within the advertising of educational/non‐educational children's games. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 130 UK adverts, fitting the time period of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine gender portrayal in food and beverage advertisements in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 45 commercials produced locally in Hong Kong and 45 commercials produced in a Western country were separately coded for ten content...