Emotional Intelligence Studies and Insight

The onset of emotional intelligence has created a plethora of studies within a variety of professions from an array of experts. Delving deeper into a variety of studies within emotional intelligence clarifies the importance of how cognitive and emotional outcomes affect a person’s life and profession along with creating deeper insight to employee performance.  In my studies and Blank's work, employers continually look towards predictors like work experience, technical skills, cognitive skills, and education for evaluating successful job performance.

The use of employment applications, resumes, interviews, and tests have been given to employees to create a deeper understanding of skills, experience, and education. The downfall to this basic level of employee assessment is its inability to identify the outstanding employee.  In fact some of today's standardized general aptitude and intelligence tests (IQ) have been found to disproportionately disqualify applicants of a particular class, typically race or gender”.


Have you seen a test for a given job changed to accommodate someones race or gender?

We only have to look at the NJ State Police and we can see a change in history of their testing practices in which they allow extra points for race.  The question is; Should this continue and does it question the intelligence of different races?