Impact of Leader's EQ on Employee's Organization Commitment

Emotional intelligence has become a popular topic in the business in recent years. Emotional intelligence(EI) is the ability to understand and manage your own emotions, and those of the people around you. To be effective, leaders must have a solid understanding of how their emotions and actions affect the people around them. The better a leader relates to and works with others, the more successful he or she will be. Emotionally intelligent leader in a way contribute to the enhancement of employee's attitude, interest, commitment in some way. This paper attempts to study the impact of leader's EQ on the employee's organization commitment. The researcher has used EQ test and Allen and Mayer organizational commitment scale, and administered it on 9 leaders and their team respectively and the findings were studied.