A STUDY ON EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE WORK STRESS IN LARGE SCALE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN AURANGABAD IN POST PANDEMIC WORLD

Suchitra Satishchandra Mendke; Dr. Sonali Kshirsagar

doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/Y2GBQ

Authors

Suchitra Satishchandra Mendke MGM Institute of Management& Research, Aurangabad (MS), India
Dr. Sonali Kshirsagar University Department of Management Science, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (MS). India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/Y2GBQ

Keywords:

Correlation, Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, Human Behaviour, Pandemic, Job Stress

Abstract

The COVID 19 pandemic has changed the organizations and their way of functioning. Post COVID era has imposed lots of alterations in the working of the companies. It proved as a testing time for the corporate as lots of effects were seen on the human behaviour. The effects of corona virus on human body are revealed by the medical science and many versions of the same virus have been explored along with their individual ill effects. But the psychological effects of this pandemic era have not yet been clearly discovered and understood. Due to these psychological impacts behavioural changes have been seen even among the employees working for the different industries. The research has revealed that emotions have impact on all the behavioural aspects of individuals so is on managing stress. The purpose of the study was to find out the role of emotional intelligence while managing stress in the organization in the new normal. The study tries to explore the association of EQ with job stress in employees of the companies at Aurangabad, Maharashtra. The research is descriptive in nature and has primary as well as secondary data. Primary data was collected using the inventory for measuring the emotional intelligence and job stress of the employees. A regression correlation test is applied to both the variables i.e. emotional intelligence and job stress to check the association and the effect. It was seen that the emotional intelligence was strongly associated with job stress during the pandemic period. A regression equation was derived to explain the strength of the association between two variables.

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