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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book Emotional Intelligence in 1995‚ the business world got an answer to a question that had been plaguing it for decades: “Why did some people of a high IQ struggle at managing teams while other leaders of lower IQ excel at it”? Goleman asserted that the traditional measurement of IQ (intelligence quotient) was not enough to determine a good leader. Schools and universities concentrated on developing the cognitive and analytical part of the brain‚ while the teaching of how the emotional side
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in the social sciences assume that humans can be reasonably approximated or described as "rational" entities (see for example rational choice theory). Many economics models assume that people are on average rational‚ and can in large enough quantities be approximated to act according to their preferences. The concept of bounded rationality revises this assumption to account for the fact that perfectly rational decisions are often not feasible in practice due to the finite computational resources available
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Emotional Intelligence Abstract: Emotional intelligence is a learned response that can be changed. Emotional intelligence is simply understanding ourselves and others‚ and acting in the best interest of ourselves and others. My test results of an Emotional Intelligence test from The Institute for Health and Human Potential made me quite emotional as I read them. The Emotional Intelligence test had questions that were to be answered on a sliding scale‚ from one side being strongly
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE `ABSTRACT "Emotional Intelligence is a way of recognizing‚ understanding‚ and choosing how we think‚ feel‚ and act. It shapes our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. It defines how and what we learn; it allows us to set priorities; it determines the majority of our daily actions. Research suggests it is responsible for as much as 80% of the "success" in our lives." The Effective leader requires a high degree of Emotional Intelligence. In this study
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On-the-Job Training for Emotional Competence During the early stages of their careers‚ leaders tend to focus on developing their technical and analytical skills‚ paying little attention to their capacity to recognize and manage their own emotions and those of others. This can hurt them later in their careers. But emotional competence can be nurtured‚ and although formal programs are a good starting point‚ learning from everyday opportunities at work is most effective. F or leaders‚ success
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La’Shante Samuels Kaplan University‚ CJ102 Criminology Unit Five Midterm Project The Rational Choice theory approach has been used by social and political scientists to put some type of meaning of why humans behave in a certain way. In recent years‚ rational choice theory has been widely used in other disciplines such as sociology‚ political science‚ and anthropology. It has gained influence in politics and sociology over the past thirty years. This choice theory stressed the role of knowledgeable
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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 EDUCATION 2: Facilitating Learning INSTRUCTOR: Mrs. Sheryl Ann Perciano Submitted By: Hazel P. Villegas Maria Dolores L. Comighod BEED- Content Course [ II-D ] Individuals have many similar characteristics but they too differ in many respects. One of these individual differences is the intellectual differences which also refers to the intelligence. Intelligence is the general capacity of a person to adjust consciously his thinking to a new requirement. It
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personal and moral qualities‚ emotional stability‚ and concern regarding the students’ learning differences and difficulties. Effective teaching is primarily concerned with setting up a learning activity which is successful in bringing about the type of learning the teacher intends for each student. An effective teacher attends to student’s social and emotional growth as well as offer high-quality academic and cognitive support (Scherer‚ 2012). He is an emotional‚ passionate being who connects
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