Impact of Strategic Emotional Intelligence to Managerial Self Efficacy & Career Success Doctoral Thesis Summary

Jayawardena Chandana

Organisational capabilities form the core component of business architecture. Human capital defines organizational capabilities and findings suggest that human intelligence is inherently involved in intellectual capital. The pluralistic views of intelligences contributed to the increased attention among psychologists for delimitations of human intelligence. Interests in ‘emotional intelligence’ (EI) research got prominence through developments in mid-1990’s, which lead to the identification of EI as a distinct form of intelligence. Among the many initiatives on EI research, only a few have represented empirically oriented scholarship. Key unresolved issues are the EI assessment techniques and cross cultural validation of EI. Study has attempted to address the above research gap providing empirical findings on the implications of EI sub constructs/domains in the world of work. Career success and occupational self-efficacy (OSE) have been employed as the real life outcomes in examining the intricacies of EI construct.