TO INVESTIGATE THE LEVEL OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND STRESS AMONGST COLLEGE EDUCATORS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGES IN COIMBATORE CITY

Emotional Intelligence has been associated with positive outcome process in various professions. In the field of management, Emotional Intelligence has been a popular topic of debate in recent years. Plethoras of literatures on the subject are available especially in the educational sector. Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capacity for understanding one's own feelings and the feelings of others, for motivating self, and for managing the emotions of self effectively to sustain relationships. Rather than being a single characteristic, emotional intelligence can be thought of as a wide set of competencies that are organized into a few major clusters. Job stress is a real phenomenon and it is associated with job satisfaction level of a worker in any place. In the case of educators handling college students in Coimbatore city is considered for this study. There are many factors leading the respondents in stressful situation. Some important factors associated with their stress are over work load, working condition, role conflict, and role ambiguity, relationship between peers and management, relationship with family members, lack of experience in understanding and executing procedures, lack of sense of belonging among the respondents. Other than this, the respondents find lack of availability and associability in their work nature, lack of objectivity, multiple roles, lack of space and time. From this point of view we can find that the employees of this specific sector are facing lot of stress in their respective institutions. All these factors affect their physical, mental, social circumstances. The results of the present study may contribute to the better understanding of emotionrelated parameters and stress parameters that affect the work process with the view to enhance the parameters to enhance better performance at work.