Emotional Intelligence in Organizational Behavior

Running Head: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 0
Organizational Behavior
Student Details
2/16/2019

Emotional Intelligence 1
Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Importance of Emotional intelligence for Employees...............................................................2
Emotional Intelligence of Mine.................................................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................3
References..................................................................................................................................5

Emotional Intelligence 2
Introduction
Emotional intelligence is gaining importance at workplaces due to increase in digital
technology at work and has become vital for the success of humans. Emotional intelligence
refers the ability of someone of perceiving, evaluating, and controlling their emotions as well
as emotions of others also. Below discussion will provide use and benefits of emotional
intelligence at the workplace and also provide the analysis of self’s emotional intelligence
(Bradberry & Greaves, 2009).
Importance of Emotional intelligence for Employees
Daniel Goleman defined five pillars of emotional intelligence ant importance of these
for professional growth. People who are intelligent emotionally are more likely to succeed at
work. Five pillars of emotional intelligence as defined by Goleman are self-awareness,
motivation, people skills, self-regulation, and empathy (Mayer, Roberts, & Barsade, 2008).
Emotional intelligence is considered to be important for employees in order to managing
people and running a business effectively. EQ of an employee has been given more
importance as compared to the IQ of a person. An employee with high EQ has the ability of
building relationships, understanding colleagues, making other employees feel safe, and
inspiring others for loyalty (Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee, 2013).
Emotional Intelligence of Mine
I have conducted the two quizzes given in the document by following the link. The
result of the two quizzes showed that I have high emotional intelligent. Of course the results
were surprising for me because I have never thought of this. People who score such high
results in this quiz are considered to be skilled at interpreting and understanding. They have