Volume : IV, Issue : I, January - 2014

Emotional Quotient and Stress Management : an exploratory study

Dolly Dwivedi, Bhavya Gupta, Nimisha Nair, Gomathy Thyagrajan, Avinash De Sousa

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Regardless of where one lives in the world one cannot escape the defining forces of our times i.e. .globalization and change. The increasing change in organizational culture, structure, specialization has led to increase in work load, the necessity to maintain a competitive edge over others. This has led to increase in the stress levels of the workers today and to deal with it IQ and QE plays a very important role. IQ has been the benchmark to measure the ability of ain in the earlier times; however a new yardstick of EQ is introduced which measures one’s ability to handle and decipher emotions. IQ and EQ may not have direct correlation in stress management but EQ plays a major part if handling stress. A review of the literature emphasizes on the need for examination of the relationship of emotional intelligence as a concept that is overarching in managing stress at workplace. In this paper we will use qualitative method to assess 50 management professionals on their EQ and its relation in stress management. The results will be analyzed and presented.

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Dolly Dwivedi, Bhavya Gupta, Nimisha Nair, Gomathy Thyagrajan, Avinash De Sousa Emotional Quotient and Stress Management : an exploratory study Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.IV, Issue. I

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