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Leveraging Emotional Intelligence for Managing Executive’s Job Stress: A Framework


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Stress is an inevitable outcome of modern day complex life in organizations and needs to be experienced at an optimal level, which depends upon person's characteristics, for making life meaning-ful and productive. This does not happen most of the times in organizational lives as demands and expectations from inside and outside the organization keep on constantly changing. Researches across the globe have found the relevance of emotional intelligence of the employees which act as a moderator vis-à-vis perception of job stress. This paper is an attempt to meta-analyze available research findings and develop a framework to be used by the industry practitioners. The conceptual model based on research literature is assumed to fillin the gap and also to address the organizational concerns.
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Sanjay Kumar Singh
Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India

Abstract


Stress is an inevitable outcome of modern day complex life in organizations and needs to be experienced at an optimal level, which depends upon person's characteristics, for making life meaning-ful and productive. This does not happen most of the times in organizational lives as demands and expectations from inside and outside the organization keep on constantly changing. Researches across the globe have found the relevance of emotional intelligence of the employees which act as a moderator vis-à-vis perception of job stress. This paper is an attempt to meta-analyze available research findings and develop a framework to be used by the industry practitioners. The conceptual model based on research literature is assumed to fillin the gap and also to address the organizational concerns.

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