Ei and What It Does? Emotional Intelligence Essay

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EI and what it does?

Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers to the emotional, social, personal, and survival characteristics of the human. Intellectual intelligence refers to human acuity in the intellectual matters of the brain. EI avers that there is not lesser a caliber of intelligence in the emotional quotients of the human, for instance in the level of his/her social dealings and way that she responds to challenging situations.

A dictionary definition of EI may be: "noncognitive capabilities, competencies, and skills that influence one's ability to succeed in coping with environment demands and pressures." (What is EQ?).

Theory • Goleman (components of EI)

According to Goleman (1995), the importance of EI to the person in all circumstances in general, and to the workplace in particular is that EI predicts superior work performance 3 times more than IQ does. Goleman divides EI into five components: self-awareness (the ability to monitor one's own moods); self-regulation (the ability to control one's moods); internal motivation (the ability to work for matters that transcend money); empathy (ability to understand others; and social skills

Leadership largely consists of emotional rather than intellectual intelligence . Two-thirds of workers also say that communication errors -- caused by EI failings -- is one of the largest stimulants of workplace error.

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• Bar-On (domains of EQ)

Dr. Bar-on, in fact, showed that EI scores help predict at least some of the following: Ability to cope with medical concerns; Workplace aggression; Turnover on job; Ability to recover from mental illness; and suicide attempts.

EI, therefore, is a characteristic that is enormously in demand in industrial environments and an argument may be brought to the effect that it is more valuable to workplaces (or should be) than IQ.

EI scores, according….....

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