Study on the Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Perceivedwork overload

Emotional Intelligence is an interesting topic in Organizational Literature today. New studies have stressed upon the relevance of Emotional Intelligence even over the traditionally accepted Intelligence Quotient. This is because Emotional Intelligence is a behavioral component that can affect employee productivity, satisfaction level as well as intent to continue with the organization. Since Emotional Intelligence is such an important behavioral component it becomes additionally important to study its relation and impact on the perceived work overload by employees. Do employees with high Emotional Intelligence have better abilities to handle work pressures? This study tries to study the impact of Emotional Intelligence on perceived Work Overload of employees in the Information Technology sector. For the purpose of this study 60 employees from an IT company were taken as the sample and administered the Questionnaire to understand whether Emotional Intelligence had an impact on their Perceived Work Overload. The study is co relational in nature and the results prove that there is a high relationship between the two variables. Also a regression model to study the impact of Emotional Intelligence on Perceived Work Overload is developed in this study. This study is important because IT Companies recruit employees solely based on their technical skills whereas the job entails long working hours and a lot of teamwork.