INTRODUCTION Over the past decade‚ increasing attention has been given to how workers express emotions in a variety of work settings. An under researched‚ aspect of the literature on emotions in organizational life concerns employers attempts to control and direct how employees display emotions to customers. Emotions are a double-edged sword at work. Emotions are ancient mechanisms that mobilize us to deal quickly with important interpersonal encounters. They have both a primal aspect and a motivational
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Bachelor of International Hospitality Management Essay 1500 words Due: Friday 28th August 2009‚ 12 noon By Cody Huxtable ID# 0791315 “How can developing skills in social and e*motional intelligence benefit you as a hospitality management practitioner?*” Social intelligence can be organised into two categories: ‘social awareness’ which describes what we sense about others‚ and ‘social facility’ which describes what we do with that awareness. Social awareness refers to “a spectrum
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Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to identify‚ control and assess emotions. It is a critical tool needed for communication with union and management team members. The ability to be able to identify and control not only your own emotions with team members but also being able to assess and identify and correctly respond to others emotions is one of the key factors in labor negotiations. There are five major categories of emotional intelligence skills that people should be keenly
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George (2000) identified that there was four aspects emotional intelligence. These aspects allow leaders to transform and motivate team members. These aspects are a) awareness of own and others’ emotion‚ b) emotional facilitation‚ c) emotional understanding and d) management of own and others’ emotions (Jordan & Lawrence‚ 2009). This first ability allows a person to accurately appraise others’ emotions along with portraying personal emotion. While this ability is related to individual level self-awareness
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Organizational Behavior Emotions and Leadership: The Role of Emotional Intelligence George‚ Jennifer M. Human Relations 53.8 (August 2000): 1027-1055 Summary: This article discusses the correlation of a leaders Emotional Intelligence (“the ability to understand and manage moods and emotions in the self and others”) (George) and how it plays a role in how effective that manager is. The author first relates how emotions‚ moods and feelings play a part in how humans deal with each other on
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Do managers need emotional intelligence to manage successfully in the workplace? Why or why not? In order to effectively manage a workplace successfully it is evident that an understanding of emotional intelligence (EI) is beneficial however its necessity and definition as an ‘intelligence’ is questionable. An understanding of emotions as well as empathizing with another and successfully manage the moods & emotions of others may be considered a skill rather then an intelligence. This skill‚ if
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Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to recognize emotions in one-self and others and to use this knowledge to improve self-management and relationships with others (Goleman‚ 1995). There are various definitions‚ but most authors define EI as a miscellaneous concept involving a wide range of skills and behaviors. EI skills and behaviors are within the area of self-awareness‚ self-regulation‚ motivation and social awareness. (Cherniss and Goleman 2001; Hood and Lodge 2004; Urch Druskat
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February 10‚ 2013 ASMT W4b (R) ASMT W4b (R) Why Emotional Intelligence Is Not Essential for Leadership C6 p.171 Mitch McCrimmon‚ the author of “Why Emotional Intelligence Is Not Essential for Leadership”‚ presents an argument contrary to that of Daniel Goleman’s claim that leaders must be emotionally intelligent to be effective. He even ventures as far as calling Goleman’s theory harmful. “The bottom line is that emotional intelligence is more important for management than leadership” (Rowe
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Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify and manage the emotions of others and your own. While in the field of nursing it is vital you use your emotional intelligence skills to understand the emotions of a patient and utilize these perceptions to manage patient situations to be able to give effective patient care. Emotional Intelligence has become more and more of a focus element for having the skills to be a nurse‚ and is more important in the nursing profession then it was before. The
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Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to control social emotions in order to create a better and pleasant work environment. Goleman explains the importance of the five key skills: self-awareness‚ self-regulation‚ motivation‚ empathy and social skill. Goleman emphasizes that emotional intelligence can be learned and increased‚ in contrast to Intelligent Quotient (IQ) where those figures almost remain unchanged. I agree with the author’s concept‚ understanding the importance that EQ should not
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