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Bharathi Kumari, K.
- A Study of Emotional Competence of Employees
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Global Journal of Research in Management, Vol 1, No 1 (2011), Pagination:Abstract
In this study the author examined the Emotional competence of employee in three different organizations-namely school, bank and industry. A sample of 20- school employees, 20-bank employees and 20-industrial employees were randomly selected for the study. Emotional competence scale by Albert, Rajeshwori, and Anantharaman (2001) was administered to the subjects. A comparison of means indicated that the highest mean is for self-awareness for all the three groups in the study. The lowest mean value is for commitment. The t-test was carried out in order to find out the difference in the group. The main finding of the study is that there is significantly difference in self-control and empathy between school employees and industrial employees. The employees in industries and banks differ significantly in self control and empathy. The bank employees and school employees have obtained higher mean in comparison to the industrial employees. The only exception is for commitment where the industrial employees have obtained higher mean than school employees. The differences are not significant between school employee and bank employee in empathy. Intercorrelations are shown in the table 4,5,6. in school most of the Intercorrelations are low and below .5 with the exception of self control and self assessment (0.66). The Intercorrelation table 5 in industry has shown very high and positive Intercorrelation for emotional competence . Only in two places the correlation is more than .5 and the rest of the correlation is less than .5 in bank.Keywords
Emotional Competence, Commitment, Self-awareness, Self-control, EmpathyReferences
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- Personality and Interest Pattern of Men in Different Occupations at Escorts Limited, Faridabad
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Global Journal of Research in Management, Vol 1, No 2 (2011), Pagination: 60-72Abstract
The main objective of the present study is to find out the personality and interest pattern HRD personnel managers, computer professionals and engineers. The sample for the present investigation consisted of 75 professionals taken from three professional groups i.e HRD personnel manager, computer professionals and engineers. The sample consisted of 75 subjects representing 25 from each group. The 16 PF questionnaire (Cattell, 1951) and Thurstones interest schedule (Thurstone, 1948) were administered to all the people. The subjects were classified into very good and acceptable on the basis of performance and potential assessments Performa used at Escort Limited. The salient findings of the study were as follows. The HRD personal manager and computer professionals and engineers differed significantly in E,F,G and H factors. The HRD personnel managers and engineers have not differed significantly.
In the interest area there is significant difference between the HRD personnel and computer professionals in humanities. There is no significant difference in the computer professionals and engineers as far as interest is concerned. The predominant interest is in executive area for HRD personnel manager where as the computer professionals predominant interest is in physical sciences and executive area. The engineers have obtained highest mean in physical sciences.
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Personality, Interest Patterns, Escorts LimitedReferences
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