Emotional Intelligence in Business
The impact of Emotional Intelligence on management performance
Ioannis D. Christopoulos
Course of Study: Master in Management
Year 1st (weekend course)
IST STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Assignment submitted for the module “Managing Self and Others”
Module Leader: Ms. Vhyna Ortega and Dr. Theodora Asimakou
06 May 2009
IST Studies-University of Hertfordshire 72 Pireos St. GR-183 46 Athens
No of Essay Words: 3,274 Abstract
The world is changing. From the forests of South America along the way to Silicon Valley in California and from Europe, the candle of modern civilization, across Africa, Middle East and the new China, the world is changing.
During the last three centuries, explosive compounds of revolutions and crises alike such as, political, finance as well as social, and scientific have been contributed to the human social evolution. It is claimed that within this era, sciences such as mathematics, physics as well as philosophy, sociology and psychology not only have been flourished but mostly have brought the man and human thought in the centre of the interest creating a human centric philosophy on which the modern world has been made.
In the present paper an attempt is made to analyze the ostensible contradiction in terms of “emotional intelligence” (EI). Since the latest technological developments have made known the potentialities of the human brain, a new form of intelligence has been appeared. Even occasionally under dispute, society as well as business organizations are seeking for a different social perspective and a new competency named emotional intelligence.
Furthermore, the direct bearing of EI in the contemporary business environment as well as in ones social evolution will be critical analyzed. Modern business organizations are though as an extension or mirror of human activities. Thus, not
Ioannis D. Christopoulos
Course of Study: Master in Management
Year 1st (weekend course)
IST STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Assignment submitted for the module “Managing Self and Others”
Module Leader: Ms. Vhyna Ortega and Dr. Theodora Asimakou
06 May 2009
IST Studies-University of Hertfordshire 72 Pireos St. GR-183 46 Athens
No of Essay Words: 3,274 Abstract
The world is changing. From the forests of South America along the way to Silicon Valley in California and from Europe, the candle of modern civilization, across Africa, Middle East and the new China, the world is changing.
During the last three centuries, explosive compounds of revolutions and crises alike such as, political, finance as well as social, and scientific have been contributed to the human social evolution. It is claimed that within this era, sciences such as mathematics, physics as well as philosophy, sociology and psychology not only have been flourished but mostly have brought the man and human thought in the centre of the interest creating a human centric philosophy on which the modern world has been made.
In the present paper an attempt is made to analyze the ostensible contradiction in terms of “emotional intelligence” (EI). Since the latest technological developments have made known the potentialities of the human brain, a new form of intelligence has been appeared. Even occasionally under dispute, society as well as business organizations are seeking for a different social perspective and a new competency named emotional intelligence.
Furthermore, the direct bearing of EI in the contemporary business environment as well as in ones social evolution will be critical analyzed. Modern business organizations are though as an extension or mirror of human activities. Thus, not
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