Emotional Intelligence in Organisational Behavior

Running Head: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR 0
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3/25/2019
2019
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR

ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOR 1
Emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence is an individual’s ability to identify and sense their and other
emotions in order to manage that emotional information and clues. This has been considered as
one of the important traits for being a good leader, which can help them influencing others
emotions and can control or possess their emotions. There have been various studies or research
for critically analyzing the emotional intelligence and evidence for the same (Duncan, 2015).
Considering the case in favor of emotional intelligence would include the biological basis
of this theory. Some studies say that emotional intelligence is based on social and biological
factors. Moreover there has been various personality test to analyze the level of emotional
intelligence a person could have which will help him or her while working in an organisation or
help in the journey of being a leader (Edelman, 2017). For instance big five personality test or
Myer’s psychology reflect the existence of emotional intelligence among a person. In one of the
study it has been tested that than an individual with damage brain would not score low while
measuring intelligence as a bet the standard measurement; although they would get lower scored
on emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is based on intuitive appeal, where it has been
tested among partners in an organisation who has scored higher on emotional intelligence has
been able to bring and deliver more business in the firm. Moreover, the researches included that
the emotional intelligence predicts the aspects that would matter, for instance the evidence
reflected that the higher level of emotional intelligence among an individual would have an
ability to perform better on the job (Gabriel, 2016).
On the contrary, the case against the existence of emotional intelligence would include
that the researchers study that the concept of emotional intelligence is too vague. This means that