Emotional Intelligence and its Relationship with Leadership Practices
Author : Anand Radhakrishnan, Udayasuriyan G 
Abstract
In recent years leadership and emotional  intelligence have become hot topic in management and organization  researches. We made an attempt to study the relationship between  emotional intelligence and leadership. Emotional intelligence is the  ability to perceive and express emotion to stimulate thought, understand  and reason. It also regulates emotion in oneself and others. Leadership  refers to the ability to influence, motivate and enable others to  contribute to the effectiveness and success of the organizations of  which they are members. To explore the relationship of emotional intelligence in the leadership practices of executives. This study adopted survey method, which is descriptive and  associational in nature. 256 executives from a public sector  organization in South India selected through stratified random sampling  method.
The result revealed that, emotional intelligence is high for non-professional degree holders and they have  preferred modeling the way dimension of leadership practices. Emotional  intelligence has a significant relationship with the leadership  practices of executives. The findings and implications are discussed in  this article.
This approach should help organizations lookand prepare for the  future more effectively; including betterspecifying the future  requirements they will have for theirleaders.The study was conducted in a public sector organization in south India. Hence it is not granted to generalize the findings.
Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Practices,    Executives and Public Sector organization
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