A STUDY ON THE LEVEL OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN TAMIL NADU NEWSPRINT AND PAPERS LIMITED (TNPL), KAGITHAPURAM, KARUR

Emotional intelligence (EI) is a relatively new idea developing from the increased interest in emotions within the workplace. According to Salovey and Mayer (1990), who were the first to coin the definition of emotional intelligence, Emotions are the most important source of human energy, ambition and drive, activating our most private feelings and aims in life, and turning them from things we think about, to values we live. Emotional intelligence holds within social intelligence and gives a special importance to the effect of emotions on our ability to look at situations without being influenced by personal feelings and therefore understanding ourselves and other people. The main focus for many leaders today is to have employees with high level of job involvement. Every organization needs highly involved employees in order to survive in today's complex business environment, highly involved employees tend to dedicate their time and effort to the success of the organization, they think of staying with the organization for a long time and never think about quitting Emotional intelligence within the workplace could be related to job involvement of the employees. It is expected that employees with higher emotional intelligence should have higher level of job involvement. In today's highly competitive business Environment Company's need their employees to be highly involved and dedicated with their jobs. Job involvement of employees is a key to success for organizations. It is said that highly involved employees are productive and will lead to success in their organizations.