Abstract : In Current era of of cut to cut competition, it has become very important for organizations to grow, develop and engage their talents in the best possible manner. Employee engagement can be defined as the degree to which a person is emotionally attached with the organization. Recent researches indicate that emotional intelligence has a strong impact on the engagement level of employees. Therefore, nowadays organizations are focusing on measuring the emotional intelligence of employees during hiring and selection process to determine the best role fit and attitude of employees. The purpose of the study was to know the relationship between emotional intelligence, the individual relationships between the dimensions of emotional intelligence viz. well-being, self control, emotionality, sociability with the employee engagement and also to know impact of emotional intelligence on employee engagement in the field of higher educationin National Capital Region (NCR) in India.The study revealed that there exists a moderate but positive and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and employee engagement. It was also found that there exist positive but insignificant relationship amongst various dimensions of emotional intelligence and employee engagement except well being. Since, apart from emotional intelligence, there are various other factors which effect employee engagement, this study leaves a scope for further research in terms of exploring these factors.
Cite : Singh, T. (2023). Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Employee Engagementa Study of Leading Printing Press in Ncr (1st ed., pp. 13-18). Noble Science Press. https://doi.org/10.52458/9789388996587.2023.eb.ch04
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