Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional Intelligence
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Aiming to generate a fair idea about the aspect of emotional intelligence, this essay shall
endeavor to delve deeper into the various aspects of emotional intelligence. This essay will also
throw light on the applications, practice and relevance of the presence of emotional intelligence.
The essay will also provide relevant examples justifying the practice of this idea. In addition to
this, this essay will also account for whether emotional intelligence can be taught and developed
by other persons. This essay will also argue for establishing the importance of the presence of the
idea of emotional intelligence.
The term ‘emotion’ is generally defined as intensive feelings and attributes that are
pointed towards other individuals (Robbins, Judge, Millett & Boyle, 2017, p. 105). ‘Emotions’
are often associated with the notions of being irrational and impractical (Robbins et al.,2017, p.
110). As against this, the term ‘intelligence’ encompasses the notion of exercising pragmatism
and discretion. The two opposing words, ‘emotion’ and ‘intelligence’ can be combined to arrive
at a comprehensive meaning and idea of the concept of emotional intelligence. Emotional
Intelligence refers to the inherent ability of exercising the intelligence of knowing and
comprehending the ongoing feelings and ideas of another person (Nagler, Reiter, Furtner &
Rauthmann ,2014, p. 27-42). As the phrase depicts, emotional intelligence points towards the
type of intelligence that permits persons to acquire relevant information about the emotional state
and ideologies of the self and the other person. Emotional Intelligence can also be defined as the
capability to employ the knowledge of emotions to solve myriad problems (Chamundeswari,
2013, p. 178). The factor of emotional intelligence has acquired one of the most important
positions in the fields of psychology and management (Shooshtarian, Ameli & Amini Lari 2013,
p. 27-43). The conjoined phrase also entails the idea of employing and cultivating this
intelligence to gauge the function of emotions and using them in an effective manner to achieve

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and concretize the goals (Castillo, Salguero, Fernández-Berrocal & Balluerka, 2013, p. 883-892).
Emotional Intelligence also incorporates the idea of moderating one’s emotions along with the
emotions of others to work towards a common goal.
A scrutiny can reveal the various constituent parts of the idea of emotional intelligence.
One of the parts of emotional intelligence is the concept of perception. Perceiving emotions is
extremely crucial to understand the ongoing emotional conflicts and issues (Coetzee & Harry,
2014, p. 90-97). In addition to this, the second part constitutes assimilation of these perceived
emotions. Assimilating the acquired knowledge is important to classify the emotions of the self
and others (Saeed, Waseem, Sikander & Rizwan, 2014, p. 242-256). Lastly, emotional
intelligence also encompasses the notion of understanding and managing emotions (Roberts et
al., 2017, p. 116-120). Emotional intelligence can be practiced only when the person concerned
understands and regulates the emotions of oneself and others (Van Deursen, Bolle, Hegner, &
Kommers, 2015, p. 411-420).
It is said that the presence of emotional intelligence is more crucial than the presence of
mere pragmatic knowledge and intelligence. In the modern world where employers struggle to
make ends meet for the employees, harboring and cultivating the idea of emotional intelligence
can ensure the delivery of proper results and proper comprehension of the prevalent feelings of
the employees. The need for emotional intelligence has been justified by recent studies.
Emotional Intelligence refers to the ability fostered by managers to gauge the emotional needs
and prevalent feeling of the employees. Managers need to inculcate and cultivate the practice of
emotional intelligence to collate and channelize the emotions and feelings of employees in
concretizing the desired goals. For example, managers can conduct regular interviews to gauge
the gestures and thoughts of employees to channelize and subvert their emotions for the