Recruiting the best: using Emotional Intelligence as a selection criteria. Pradeepa Wijetunge PhD Librarian University of Peradeniya Peradeniya Sri Lanka E-mail:librarian@pdn.ac.lk Every business person knows a story about a highly intelligent‚ highly skilled executive who was promoted into a leadership position only to fail at the job. And they also know a story about someone with solid-but not extraordinary-intellectual abilities and technical skills who was promoted into a similar position
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In Is the American Dream Over‚ Cal Thomas elaborates on the article previously published by Bob Herbert‚ Hiding from Reality. In Thomas’ article he habitually blames the liberals for the government’s decline. He frequently directs attacks right into the faces of all of his readers‚ whether liberal or conservative. His stance is not only completely biased‚ but it is offensive to the liberal audience. Thomas’ piece is composed of stabs at liberals for ruining the economy‚ letting the government get
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An investigation of the employee perceptions on the relationship between employee job satisfaction and the leader’s emotional intelligence among the workers of Eskom in Alice Town 1 INTRODUCTION For organisations to survive in today’s changing world they should maintain their competitive advantage through the use of the whole workforce. In order for the change to take place‚ the employees‚ and the leaders should be adaptive to the environment‚ effective working and the continuous improvement of
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Emotional Intelligence Within Management When thinking of Emotional Intelligence (EI) we think of the three top observers: Daniel Jay Goleman‚ who is an author‚ psychologist‚ and science journalist. For twelve years‚ he wrote for The New York Times‚ specializing in psychology and brain sciences. The other is John D. Mayer whom is a psychologist at the University of New Hampshire. He is a personality psychologist. He co-developed a popular model of emotional
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Intelligence Honors Literature Review/Thesis Laurel K. Fauster Thesis Chair Jerry Bruce Sam Houston State University Author Note Laurel K. Fauster‚ Department of Psychology‚ Sam Houston State University. Thesis Chair Dr. Jerry Bruce‚ Department of Psychology‚ Sam Houston State University. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Laurel K. Fauster‚ Department of Psychology‚ Sam Houston State University‚ Huntsville‚ Texas 77341-2447.
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Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive‚ understand‚ manage‚ and use emotions. The ability to perceive emotions is defined as the ability to recognize them in other people‚ their faces‚ stories and music. The ability to understand emotions is defined as being able to predict them and how they change and blend. The ability to manage emotions is defined as knowing how to express them in varied situations. The fourth ability is to use emotions to enable adaptive or creative thinking.
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While reading “The Life You Save May Be Your Own‚” I couldn’t decide who was worse between Mr. Shiflet and Mrs. Crater. When I finished reading I decided Mr. Shiflet was worse because of how manipulative he was. Mr. Shiflet was able to manipulate how and what people thought and what people talked about with him. When Mrs. Crater would ask Mr. Shiflet a question about why he is at her house he would respond with a different question or tell her a story about the doctor in Atlanta that cut a human
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After taking the Queendom.com emotional intelligence test I was able to discover many important character weakness as well as strengths that I have. During this writing I will like to take some time to reflect on the results of this test. I would also like to explain the meaning of emotional intelligence and why it is important. Last but not least I would also like to help find ways to enhance our emotional intelligence. The results came in and at the time were very surprising. My strengths were
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Animal Intelligence Animals are smarter than people think they are. As animal studies keep on increasing‚ we find out that some animals are close to our level of thinking. Animals such as chimps‚ parrots‚ elephants‚ dolphins and monkeys have been studied and proved to us that they too have a good level of intelligence. Self recognition‚ social skills‚ language skills and the use of tools are all signs that scientist use to prove that these animals have a good capacity of smarts in their brain
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE A CLUSTER OF TRAITS O ABILITITES RELATING T EMOTOINAL SIDE OF LIFE Emotional intelligence (EI) is defined as a person’s self-awareness‚ self-confidence‚ self-control‚ commitment and integrity‚ and a person’s ability to communicate‚ influence‚ initiate change and accept change (Goleman‚ 1998). EQ is quite distinct from IQ and is considered more important than IQ to live a happy and productive life. People who do not have a strong emotional intelligence have a very hard time
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