Impact of Gender and Job Level on Emotional Intelligence among IT Professionals

A study was planned to investigate the gender and job level differences m the experience of emotional intelligence among IT professionals. The sample for the present study is consisted of 205 (95 female and 105 male) IT professionals working m soft ware industries of Hyderabad and Bangalore cities of India were collected randomly The emotional intelligence scale developed by Singh (2003) was used to measure emotional intelligence of the sample. The study reveals that there is no impact of gender on emotional intelligence. But the results indicate that there is significant difference between managers and non-managers with regard to emotional intelligence. The study also reveals that the group with high and low levels of occupational stress differed significantly on their emotional intelligence. The implications and suggestions of the study were discussed. Keywords: gender, job level, emotional intelligence, occupational stress, IT professionals