Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Interpersonal Skills of Employees

Abstract

Humans constantly strive for happiness, success and recognition and to this end they have constantly innovated different paradigms of thinking for human progress and its causes.Emotions are deep rooted primal behavioural programming that has helped man survive through many millenniums ever since his existence. Employees have very high levels of emotional intelligence but moderate levels of interpersonal skills. The research was able to establish a close relationship between emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. Only some demographic variables like age, designation or experience influence the few variables of emotional intelligence or few components of interpersonal skills of Employees. The component wise study was useful in establishing relationships. Being a pioneering work, the study has resulted in conclusions that could be useful for further research as well as for establishing scales for decision makers. This was made possible only because of the research design.