A Study of Emotional Intelligence and Job Satisfaction among Employees of a Biscuits Manufacturing Unit

The present study was planned to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence on job satisfaction. The sample for the present study is consisted of 222 employees (160 labors, 17 product dept, 12 official staff 5 foremen, 8 maintenance, 5 cool stores, and 15 others-securities and logistics) from a biscuits manufacturing unit of the same age range 25 to 45 years. In this study the emotional intelligence scale developed by Dhar et al. (2001) and job satisfaction developed by Singh and Sharma (1971) was used. The study reveals that there is a significant effect of high emotional intelligence and low emotional intelligence on job satisfaction.