Management in Leadership: Emotional Intelligence and its Association with Leadership Effectiveness

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MANAGEMENT IN LEADERSHIP

MANAGEMENT 1
Table of Contents
Emotional Intelligence...............................................................................................................2
Factors of Emotional Intelligence..............................................................................................2
Association of Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Effectiveness.......................................4
How Emotional Intelligence Can Be Taught.............................................................................5
Emotional Intelligence beyond Tests.........................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

MANAGEMENT 2
Emotional Intelligence
Before the 20th century, one can perceive intelligence only in some cognitive factors
such as problem solving ability and memory reasoning, however, the recent era brings
various scientists (mentioning a few) Howard Gardner, David Wechsler and Robert
Thorndike, who found the difference between standard cognitive intelligence and non-
cognitive intelligence which is called Emotional Intelligence (Mayer, Roberts and Barsade,
2008). Emotional Intelligence is being aware that emotions can drive the behaviour and
influence people both positively and negatively and understanding how to manage those
emotions to drive success and eliminate hurdles for oneself.
Emotional Intelligence is a term developed by two researchers – John Mayer and
Peter Salavoy and Dan Golemon popularized this term in his one of the publications in 1996.
The discovery of these two researchers illuminates that only IQ is not sufficient for a good
quality life as one need to acquire emotional intelligence or it will be difficult to identify their
feelings and other people responses while giving any expression (Beatson, Lings &
Gudergan, 2008).
This report emphasis on building more awareness about various aspects connected
with Emotional Intelligence, its association with leadership effectiveness and how it can be
recognized and taught.
Factors of Emotional Intelligence
Self-Awareness
It is a condition where an individual has a clear understanding of personality that
consists of strengths, emotions, pattern and feelings. Individuals with self-awareness can
realise other people well as they know how their emotions impact other person. Moreover,
they also recognise their respective goals and know the procedure how to achieve them.
There are three interdependent skills also placed in self-awareness which includes
emotional self-awareness, self-confidence, and accurate self-assessment. Some individuals
create gap from their emotions by including themselves in the activities like drinking,
smoking and even taking of drugs. Though development of emotional self-awareness helps in
identifying oneself feeling with the way an individual body is expressing the feeling.