SMU Guildhall Graduate Catalog Spring 2019 — Cohort 27 | Page 70

Gerald Milton Production « Factors of Team Performance in Video Game Development: Team Efficacy, Emotional Intelligence, and Emergent Leadership For my thesis project, I set out to I found that Team Efficacy is closely success and high performance in video Emotional Intelligence. This provided understand what factors contribute to game development teams. Over the course of the past year, I reviewed previous research, identified and important insight into developing high performance teams in the video game industry. assembled survey instruments to measure In the future, I hope researchers refer to Emergent Leadership, and Team It is vitally important that we develop a Team Efficacy, Emotional Intelligence, Performance, collected data from video game development teams using these surveys, and analyzed the resulting data. 70 related to both Team Performance and PRODUCTION and build on the work I did for my thesis. better understanding of how to create long-term success in the video game industry.