ABSTRACT
Over the years, practical intelligence, social intelligence, and especially emotional intelligence have received substantial attention in the academic and practitioner literatures. However, at the same time, these individual difference “constructs” have also fueled controversies and criticisms, including their applications to employee selection. It is without doubt that their defi nition, dimensionality, and operationalization (measurement) have been much more questioned as compared with the more traditional or established constructs (i.e. cognitive ability, personality) in this section of the book.
