Emotional Intelligence
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE : Review
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
It is quite obvious to state that without positive and negative preferences reflected in our day to day experiences, our life would be dull and gray. In such circumstances, we would not be motivated to do work and never care for others as well. And because of these reasons Emotional Intelligence holds significance as it deals with the cognitive aspects of life. Today, the general trend of management like leadership, role efficacy, self efficacy, team work, motivation, job performance and decision making is supported by emotional intelligence to raise the level of social and emotional competence in oneself and others. Emotional Intelligence is a different way of being smart. Put in simple terms, it is how you handle yourself, get along with others, work as a team player, and as a leader. These ideas are not new in the workplace. Classic management theory has always focused on how we manage ourselves and relate to people. What’s innovative is that for past two decades research from various disciplines such as psychology, organizational development, and neuroscience has revealed just how much emotional intelligence matters for success.
Evolution of the emotional intelligence construct
The evolution of emotional intelligence can be traced back to the 17th century when Spinoza (1677) highlighted the contribution of emotion and intellect to measurement of cognition. Wilhelm Wundt (1871) further developed knowledge in the field of emotional theory when he attempted to classify a range of emotional feelings into a three dimensional system, which became known as “Wundt’s three dimensions of feeling”. Wundt claims that his six basic feelings form three pairs of opposites, which make up his three "dimensions of feeling", pleasure-displeasure, excitement-inhibition and tension-relaxation. Subsequently, Charles Darwin (1872) published the first known work in the wider area of emotional-social
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
It is quite obvious to state that without positive and negative preferences reflected in our day to day experiences, our life would be dull and gray. In such circumstances, we would not be motivated to do work and never care for others as well. And because of these reasons Emotional Intelligence holds significance as it deals with the cognitive aspects of life. Today, the general trend of management like leadership, role efficacy, self efficacy, team work, motivation, job performance and decision making is supported by emotional intelligence to raise the level of social and emotional competence in oneself and others. Emotional Intelligence is a different way of being smart. Put in simple terms, it is how you handle yourself, get along with others, work as a team player, and as a leader. These ideas are not new in the workplace. Classic management theory has always focused on how we manage ourselves and relate to people. What’s innovative is that for past two decades research from various disciplines such as psychology, organizational development, and neuroscience has revealed just how much emotional intelligence matters for success.
Evolution of the emotional intelligence construct
The evolution of emotional intelligence can be traced back to the 17th century when Spinoza (1677) highlighted the contribution of emotion and intellect to measurement of cognition. Wilhelm Wundt (1871) further developed knowledge in the field of emotional theory when he attempted to classify a range of emotional feelings into a three dimensional system, which became known as “Wundt’s three dimensions of feeling”. Wundt claims that his six basic feelings form three pairs of opposites, which make up his three "dimensions of feeling", pleasure-displeasure, excitement-inhibition and tension-relaxation. Subsequently, Charles Darwin (1872) published the first known work in the wider area of emotional-social