Matt Worrell
Production
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Video Game Development Success Through Emotional Intelligence
Research has shown that leaders with
team. To track team performance, the
effective than leaders with low emotional
evaluations. The study tracked these two
high emotional intelligence are more
intelligence. The video game producer
is a leadership role, so the goal of this
study was to discover if a video game
producer’s emotional intelligence impacts
team performance.
To test this theory, the study tracked two
measures—the producer’s emotional
intelligence and team performance.
To measure the producer’s emotional
intelligence, the study distributed an
emotional intelligence survey about the
project’s producer to the development
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study used the average of the team’s peer
measures over the projects’ first three
milestones and compared the results.
The study had contradictory results, as
one producer’s emotional intelligence
and team performance shared a
positive relationship while the other
producer’s measures do not have a
positive relationship. Further research is
suggested to determine why there were
contradictory results and to further prove
the study’s hypothesis.