Teaching Emotional Intelligence In The Business School Curriculum

Abstract

The ability to manage one’s emotions and to manage one’s interactions with others is tantamount  to effective  managerial leadership.  Students  in  business  schools will need to be prepared  to integrate their  emotional  intelligence with their  everyday  behavior if they are to achieve  success  in  whatever  field  of  endeavor they  have chosen.  In this article I will outline a curriculum  design  that will  enable students to understand, appreciate and apply  the  principles  embedded in the emotional  intelligence model.  The following topics will be  discussed in this article as part of this  self management curriculum:  assessing  one’s level  of emotional intelligence;  the distinction between  emotional  and intellectual  competency;  what  research  shows in terms  of the relationship between emotional intelligence and success in life;  and  a description  of  the self management course which I currently teach  within the emotional  intelligence framework.