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Emotional Intelligence and Virtual Teams
There are many articles discussing emotional intelligence in teams, and a couple that are specific to virtual teams. Key to understanding the role that emotional intelligence plays on virtual teams is knowing the differences between virtual teams and normal work teams, and knowing how emotional intelligence might affect a normal team, then being able to extrapolate how the differences might affect things.
Jordan and Troth (2004) discuss the role that emotional intelligence plays in problem solving. They found that emotional intelligence is positively indicated with… Continue Reading...
and more progressive views of leadership style is the idea that emotional intelligence is a significant contributor to leadership success. Similarly, it has become leadership orthodoxy that transformational leaders are more successful than transactional ones. Given that transformational leadership requires the leader to inspire and motivate followers, and that a high degree of emotional intelligence would reasonably be thought to aid in this, the hypothesis can be formed that leaders with emotional intelligence are more likely to be transformational leaders, and more successful ones as well.
Several studies have explored the link between emotional intelligence and the transformational leadership style. Quader… Continue Reading...
other intervening factors that can help in achieving this, some of them are the emotional intelligence of that particular graduate or job seeker and the academic achievement of that particular candidate. These three factors, employability, emotional intelligence and the academic achievement interact in specific manner to shape the ultimate quality of employability of a given candidate. They have a symbiotic relationship particularly in the current competitive environment where education and innovation has influenced change and in the process change has influenced these two in a seamless cycle. It is the interest in the relationship among these three factors that informs the gist of this… Continue Reading...
become a global village and where geographical distance no longer hinders the conduct of business, the role emotional intelligence plays in facilitating team cohesion ought to be investigated. This is more so the case given that the virtual nature of teams more often than not triggers trust and harmful sentimental concerns/issues that could get in the way of the successful implementation of organizational goals and objectives. The present study attempts to map the role of emotional intelligence in a virtual team setting so as to determine whether the same could be harnessed to improve team performance.
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What impact does a virtual team’s level of emotional… Continue Reading...
Emotional intelligence is what makes people effective in social situations, or in any situation requiring self-control or calm responses to stress. In fact, a large component of what people used to call "street smarts" is related to emotional intelligence, because emotional intelligence refers to the ability to read other people, read situations, and react in ways that are conducive to desirable results. Emotional intelligence is easily as important as intellectual intelligence in predicting overall success and happiness. Depending on one's career field, emotional intelligence may even be more important than… Continue Reading...
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is very important in leadership. It enables a leader to understand and communicate with his followers in a way that is empathetic, supportive and non-abrasive. It can be considered one of the most effective tools of a leader because it helps to create an atmosphere of trust, companionship, and teamwork. As Mandell and Pherwani (2003) point out the Intelligence Quotient is not just a matter of remembering facts or solving problems -- when it comes to leadership, one of the most needed elements of intelligence is how… Continue Reading...
Emotional Intelligence is the aptitude of an individual to be aware of their personal emotions and those of others surrounding them. Emotional intelligence is also referred to as Emotional Quotient (EQ). The knowledge of one’s emotional intelligence is important in that the information obtained from the knowledge can be used to influence thinking towards a given direction. It is also vital for it provides for the opportunity to be able to improve on one's behavior in order to adjust to an environmental or in order to achieve any set intentions.… Continue Reading...
Emotional Intelligence and the Role it Plays in Project Portfolio Management
One of the most important and essential qualities of leadership needed in today's multigenerational business world is Emotional Intelligence (EI). EI is a "people smart" type of intelligence -- it enables an individual to read a person and provide the right kind of emotional feedback and/or responses to that person's needs. Leaders who demonstrate strong emotional intelligence are able to improve project performance because they focus on the individuals within a team rather than simply or exclusively on goals… Continue Reading...
role that quality relationships play in the workplace and how they can profit the organization. Emotional intelligence is delineated as the subsection of social intelligence that takes into account the capability of an individual to monitor his or her own feelings and emotions as well as those of others, to distinguish amidst them and to utilize this information for guiding the individual's thoughts and actions (Hunt and Fitzgerald, 2013). In other words, emotional intelligence is the power of rational, coherent response and comprehending a sequence of emotions and belief that the managers with high social intelligence, through the assistance of ideal self-assurance and inherent control… Continue Reading...
Leadership Style and Emotional Intelligence
In today's competitive world, it is the professional organizations that lay the foundation of much of the social structure. Today's corporate and professional offices are considered important venues for an interactive growth sphere. Thus, the aspects of emotional intelligence (E1), leadership style and gender are now surfacing as really important aspects to understand the overall associative quality and nature of these workplace relationships and how these can be advantageous to the companies that pay attention to their quality (Quader, 2011). We now see a rising interest in how… Continue Reading...
In recent years, many researchers have been attracted by the topic of emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership style. Their interest in the area is based on claims that effective leadership style and Emotional Intelligence are linked. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and leadership style giving emphasis to transformational in organizations and countries by incorporating the concept of organizational culture. The future existence of agencies has been determined primarily by their ability to adapt to continuous change. As such, the study also looks into unveiling the actual role of gender in determining leadership style… Continue Reading...
training and selection conditions for recruiting and developing efficient corporate leaders. Emotional intelligence, defined as a collection of skills, partly indicating an individual's effectiveness in tackling personal as well as others' emotions, is one of the variables (that have recently become popular) identified as a prospective fundamental leadership trait (Palmer et al. 2001). This paper aims at analyzing whether or not emotional intelligence (EI) in leaders influences their preference for diverse means of integrating their leadership behaviors/actions (Li et al. 2016).
Scholars in the field hypothesize that leaders' effective handling of emotions can influence how they address subordinates' needs, successfully motivate… Continue Reading...
to overall life satisfaction. The second hypothesis was that there would be a positive correlation between life satisfaction and emotional intelligence. The third hypothesis was that life satisfaction would be predicted by interaction of emotional intelligence and stress, in that if stress were high and emotional intelligence low, the life satisfaction of the student would be low. It is predicted that when emotional intelligence is high and stress is low, life satisfaction would be highest (Holinka, 2015, p. 304).
The variables of the study were life satisfaction, stress levels, and emotional intelligence amongst college students. The researchers aimed to study the effect and correlation between the stress levels of… Continue Reading...
I am “genuinely focused and emotionally involved,” there is greater potential for rapport (Bevan & Sole, 2014, Section 8.3). Emotional intelligence is a cluster of skills that includes empathy and the ability to tune into other people, reading their own faces, body language, and emotional states as well as my own. When I develop emotional intelligence, I can monitor my own thoughts and feelings, and control them so that I refrain from judgments or interruptions even when involved in a challenging conversation.
I can use active empathic listening and emotional intelligence to help you improve your communication both in personal interactions and in the workplace. For example, I can… Continue Reading...
Overseas marketing, emotional intelligence and Virtual teams
Psychology has been used for a long term to help man cope with the challenges of life, whether at the domestic level or the external environment. Families have been reunited using psychological concepts, problems solved and innovative ways formulated through adherence to psychological concepts. This is an indication that psychology is not a static discipline but a diverse and adaptive discipline that deals with the contemporary challenges that the society faces.
One of the contemporary challenges brought about by globalization is the issue of virtual… Continue Reading...
fundamental approach to my own work.
Frye, C. M., Bennett, R., & Caldwell, S. (2006). Team emotional intelligence and team interpersonal process effectiveness. Mid - American Journal of Business, 21(1), 49-56. Retrieved from https://ezp.waldenulibrary.org/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezp.waldenulibrary.org/docview/214181517?accountid=14872
Emotional intelligence is linked with several leadership traits and to overall team functioning. This research is an exploratory study designed to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the efficacy of emotional intelligence. While the research does not demonstrate how to cultivate or capitalize on emotional intelligence constructs, the researcher does use an established instrument (the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory) to improve the overall validity of the results. A reasonable sample… Continue Reading...
All the same, though quite different, both deep acting and surface acting generally entail projecting untrue emotions. Indeed, both types of emotional labour can be likened to the notion of emotional intelligence (Ghalandari et al., 2012). Emotional intelligence is about awareness of other people's emotions and acting on the basis of those emotions. Similarly, emotional labour involves controlling one's emotions to conform to the expected rules of behaviour. Nonetheless, this is not to say that the terms emotional labour and emotional intelligence can be utilised interchangeably.
Though emotional labour may occur in any organisational context, it tends to be more concentrated in service industries (Kinman, 2009). In service industries, there is often a great deal of interaction between employees and… Continue Reading...
to make sales as they handle people with widely varying emotional intelligence. This makes them have emotional challenges that is not dealt with can grow to worse conditions. This research will look at the most effective way of the salesperson participating in the handling of the emotional challenge they get themselves in. there will be a conceptual framework drafted that will help in understanding the concept of expressive suppression as a way of handling emotional challenge among sale persons leading to emotional stability among the salespersons. By the end of the research, it is expected that a positive correlation between… Continue Reading...
Emotional intelligence and high Virtual team performance
Background
The contemporary business environment is competitive just as much as I is creative in nature. The globalization and its influences have pushed the business environment to greater heights as compared to the prevailing levels two decades ago. Information technology has led to a market environment that is both advanced and dynamic at the same time. The trends that may be a preference of many in a given year may seem useless and rendered inapplicable in the next year. This means that any… Continue Reading...
Emotional Intelligence in Various Relationships
Self-disclosure forms an integral tool to establish rapport in relationships. Different relationships entail one's communication of different facts regarding self. At first, you may hesitate to let your partner know of all your intimate secrets. Effective communication skills encompass knowing proper self-disclosure levels. The social penetration theory put forward in the year 1973 likened disclosure to peeling layers of an onion (Bevan & Sole, 2014). With the strengthening of your relationship, you will automatically start opening up and letting your partner know more about yourself.… Continue Reading...
