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Effect of Emotional Intelligence Intervention on Emotional Maturity among Software Professionals

Nithya Sankar, Dr.S. S. Rau

Abstract


Today‟s world is gifted with plenty of technology, plenty of entrepreneurs, plenty of money, plenty of entry capital and plenty of human resource with high IQ level but lacks in supply of teams with high EQ level. Emotional Intelligence is being intelligently handling „difficult to manage‟ emotions, parallel to this Emotional maturity is the ability to evaluate emotions of oneself and others and balance the state of heart and mind by being adaptable and flexible in most of their situations. Increasingly more organizations especially the software companies are realizing the role of Emotional intelligence skills in their work environment as they take up projects and accomplish it in teams. Hence the current paper fulfills the purpose of investigating the effect of Emotional intelligence intervention on Emotional maturity level among software professionals. Finally, the approach of this present study would be helpful for the organizations especially to the software organizations to proceed with including Emotional intelligence training as their management philosophy and prepare for the future more effectively and successfully.

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Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence Intervention, Emotional Quotient, Emotional Maturity.

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