Emotional Intelligence and Cultural Diversity

Running head: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
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Introduction
The aim of the report is to analyze the issue of emotional intelligence, cultural
intelligence and diversity by conducting the tests. This has been performed by taking up two
assessments of my colleagues and a self-reflection on the issue. This paper aims to analyze the
issue of emotional intelligence within the context of a culturally diverse situation. This has been
observed that emotional intelligence is one of the key factors of determining the ability of the
leader functioning in a culturally diverse background.
Discussion
This has been observed that the as an individual , I belong to the open self who is more
concerned with sharing of behavior, attitude, knowledge skills and I am willing to share it with
the group members. In the case of the other two members who have chosen for the test, it has
been observed that participant one has a hidden self-state of emotional and cultural intelligence.
This seems that the participant do not generally open-up about the emotional intricacies of
himself or herself. Moreover, these individuals usually are introverted in nature and do not share
their private lives with others in a group of friends. For the third participant, it has been noticed
that she is in between the state of hidden self and unknown self. This can be analyzed that the
third participant is more to the mysterious side of personality who has a more complex nature of
understanding the ideas and it becomes equally difficult for others to comprehend the concepts
and perception she is having. After the due consideration of the issue of the nature of their self,
it is crucial to understand that all two participants including me are emotionally intelligent
even though there are disparities in terms their social awareness and relationship management.

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As per the emotional intelligence results, it has been observed that the amount of self and social
awareness of the second participant is comparatively low while the third participant has
relationship higher social consciousness and but lacks the parameters of self-awareness. It is to
be noted that the issue of emotional intelligence is one of the key aspects of a successful life.
According to the theory presented by Salovey and Mayer in 1990, this has been observed that
emotional intelligence is part of social intelligence (Carson et al. 2016). This does not simply
include the sense of the self or the self-awareness; it is the use of the emotional state of the self in
solving the issue and behavior of others. according to the Goleman’s EI intelligence model, it
has been observed that participant one and two have differing results in terms of the four
parameters, level of self and social awareness have provided different results even though
relationship management, they stand on a higher elevation (Rezvani et al. 2016). However
analyzing the same issue from Bar-On’s EI competencies model, it has been found that EI is
more of a system of interconnected behavior arising out of the emotional and social
competencies of each individual (Fernández-Berrocal et al. 2016). Hence it can be analyzed
from the above understanding that an individual, we will have a different pattern of emotional
intelligence and it is primarily determined by some of the underlying factors like management of
the self in terms of emotions, behaviours, attitudes and actions.
In terms of the strength and weakness of each of the participants, it should be highlighted that
one of the crucial strengths I have is relationship management. It is significant to note that the
impact of effective relationship management is important to understand the emotions of other
people on the group which makes interaction easier. In the case of social awareness, as an
individual, I have higher awareness regarding the people around me which are essential to make
meaningful relationships in every context. Strength is related to the effective communication