The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Career Success

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
Organizational Behavior
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Introduction
Career success is definitely one of the most significant aims in the life of a working
professional. People go to different levels to achieve their success in their professional careers.
One must acknowledge the fact that this career success has a long running relationship with that
of the emotional intelligence (Schutte and Loi 2014). One can also express this emotional
intelligence through cognitive intelligence as well. In almost all the fields or industries, it is very
crucial to have the cognitive intelligence or emotional intelligence. This helps the employees in a
big way to achieve the desired success indeed. The impact of the emotional intelligence on the
success in the careers of people will be discussed in this paper.
Significance of emotional intelligence
Critics are of the opinion that the need for the proper emotional intelligence is very
crucial because it will help out the employees to understand the emotions of the other people in
the workplace in the distinguished manner. The most important factor that is important in this
scenario is to understand the emotions of the people control them properly and manipulate the
emotions for the overall benefit of the people (Schutte and Loi 2014). This is very crucial
because the employees must be able to understand the emotions of others so they work with them
properly. This will definitely create a sort of communication between each other. This
communication and understanding between the people is crucial since it will lead them to work
coherently and contribute to the success of the organization (McCleskey 2014). In this manner,
the entire management will be very happy with the accomplishments of the employees.
Supervision through emotional intelligence
Some management scholars have also pointed out the issue when an employee is able to
understand and identify the emotions of the other employees; it becomes very easy for them to

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handle the other persons as well (Schutte and Loi 2014). This is a sign that they can be
considered as the future supervisors of the organization. So, they will be considered for the
promotions as well. Some authors have pointed out the proper idea of the emotional intelligence.
It is mainly having the power to understand, assess, control and manage the feelings. When a
person is able enough to do these things, they will surely be able to control people working under
them (Njoroge and Yazdanifard 2014). They can supervise them properly and convince them
very easily as well. This kind of emotional intelligence is surely very important for both the
personal and professional relationships (Carson, Carson and Birkenmeier 2016). The general
mental ability is thus signified by the emotional intelligence of the employees. It is definitely up
to them how they can make the balance between their works and make their time for other works
as well. Emotional skills are definitely associated with the different skills of the people in
different ways (McCleskey 2014).
Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
Some have opined that it takes a lot of time to develop the emotional intelligence of the
human beings. They should take their times to understand the feelings of people in different
ways (Njoroge and Yazdanifard 2014). The self-awareness of the people is indeed very
important thing to survive in the organizations for a long time. For this, they should be very
sharp and be able to understand the nature of the people they are working with. Some people
have high level of emotional intelligence but they should look to increase the levels of their
patience and dedication level. The bonding between employees is very crucial in the
organizational context. In order to grow this bond, they must value their emotional intelligence at
the most (Murphy 2014). Some authors have pointed out that people with higher level of
emotional intelligence end up getting higher salaries. It is because they can understand the