THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON LEADERSHIP FROM ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY PERSPECTIVE

• Main Authors: GABRIELA MIRONOV, ECATERINA NECSULESCU, MIHAIL – SILVIU POCORA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nicolae Titulescu University Publishing House 2011-04-01
• Series: Challenges of the Knowledge Society
• Subjects: emotional intelligence; leadership; emotional management; general intelligence.
• Online Access: http://cks.univnt.ro/uploads/cks_2011_articles/index.php?dir=02_economy%2F&download=cks_2011_economy_art_048.pdf

Talking about intelligence as a complex system of operations which conditioning the general approach and solving different problematic situations and tasks, we have insight operations and abilities such as: adaptation to the new situations, the deduction and generalization, the correlation and integration into a unified whole of rather disparate parties, the consequences and anticipation of the outcome, the qiuck comparing of actionable variants and retaining the best alternative, the correct and accurate solutions of some problems with increasing degrees of difficulty. All these skills and operations reveals at least three fundamental characteristics of intelligence: the ability to solve the new situations, quickness, mobility, adaptability, the suitable and efficient flexibility to the circumstances.The intelligence appears as a quality that whole mental activities, as expression of higher organization of all mental processes, including the emotional - motivational. According as forming and developing the mechanisms and operations of whole mental functions, we encounter a flexible and supple intelligence. At present, is still continue in psychology the question if the intelligence is the capacity to acquire knowledge, to reason and solve problems, or it involves different types of skills. The majority is choose the first assumption. The new research made by cognitive psychology perspective and neuropsychology, which connects the intelligent behavior of neurological efficiency, brings valuable clarification in this regard. The study is approaches the complexity of this side of personality, which arising from the approach advocated in the history of philosophy and psychology. The opinions considering to the intelligence have ranged from acceptance and highlighting its role in knowledge, to the decrease its significance or even to eliminate it from human existence.