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Erica McWilliam is Professor of Education and Assistant Dean Research in the Faculty of Education at the Queensland University of Technology. Her educational publications cover a wide spectrum, as is evidenced in her numerous publications on teaching and learning, research methodology and training, leadership and management, and postmodernity. She is currently series editor of ‘Eruptions’, with Peter Lang Publishing, New York. Correspondence to: Professor Erica McWilliam, Assistant Dean Research, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology, Victoria Park Rd, Kelvin Grove, Australia 4059. Tel.: +61 7 38643412; Fax: +61 7 38643988; E‐mail: [email protected]
Caroline Hatcher is an MBA Director and Senior Lecturer in the Brisbane Graduate School of Business in the Faculty of Business at the Queensland University of Technology. She teaches and publishes in the area of organizational communication. Her current research interests focus on the role of ‘emotional’ capital in business and intercultural communication.
See, for example, www.apa.org/monitor/jul98/emot.html; www.connected.org/learn/school. html; www.eiconsortium.org; www.schoolofemotional‐literacy.com; www.eqcentre.com.sg
It is worth noting that the ‘science’ on which Goleman bases his work is almost exclusively psychological studies conducted with middle‐class Anglo populations in the United States.
See http://www.practicaleq.com/practitioner.html for an outline of this programme.
Alison Flint has completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Queensland that defines ‘job passion’, and provides an analysis that includes three elements: affective passion, the development of a reliable 18‐item scale to assess job passion, and the link between job passion and burnout (Bathgate, Citation2001).