Emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and workplace satisfaction: A gender based correlational study

Pages: 1976-1979
Jhuma Mukherjee (Department of Psychology, Asutosh College, Kolkata, West Bengal)

The workplace environment keeps on changing, indicating its dynamic nature as well as unpredictability. Organizations require its employees to be more committed as well as to have a better cohesive working interrelationship. Despite a reluctance on the part of organizational researchers to deal with the subjects of emotions or spirituality, recent researchers have begun to argue for the importance of exploring their relationship to workplace satisfaction. Several dimensions of spirituality, when integrated into the workplace, can greatly enhance personal well-being and creativity, organizational harmony, and long-term business success. Similarly, it appears that spirituality and emotional intelligence is related to workplace satisfaction and effectiveness. For this purpose, the study conducted with a group of 100 government male and female teaching faculty through questionnaire method. Research findings indicates ,with both these intelligence happening in the workplace, the environment will be more conducive and faculties experience more satisfaction relates to a higher level of productivity. This paper explores the impacts of emotional intelligence and spirituality on workplace satisfaction, examining possible linkages among these variables if differences exist among gender and finally, presents several ideas for future research deriving from this research.