The emotion recognition ability of people has a proven impact on their income. This is the result of a highly regarded study that Professor Jochen Menges of the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management has carried out together with researchers from the University of Bonn and Illinois State University.
Study aroused enormous media
"The better employees recognize feelings of others in organizations, the higher the annual salary of these employees. Emotion recognition skills are not only of interpersonal meaning, but also have an economic value, "explains Professor Jochen Menges, Professor of Leadership and Human Resource Management at WHU.
The study has since its release will get the best of all media coverage ever published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior article. "Emotion recognition is an economic success, but is often underestimated in its importance. Thus, our study does away now. Therefore, I am particularly pleased that our research results are such a large media attention, "says Menges. The findings not only provides Menges ago in an article, but also in a video on the website of the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
