Leadership And Emotional Intelligence

The paper addresses aspects related to the importance of leadership based on emotional intelligence, stressing the relationship between emotion, leader, organizational culture and performance. Throughout the paper, it has been shown that the basic role of emotion in management is to create and generate positive resonance within the organization, allowing people to develop. The fields of emotional intelligence are also presented from the perspective of Goleman's model - self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management and adjacent managerial skills, in order to highlight the interconnection between these domains and their dynamic relationship. Under the conditions of complex and profound changes in the operation of organizations and lifes of people, inspirational leadership is required consisting of adequate management of collective emotions that will lead to increasing the organization's abilities to cope with successful change. A model has of collective emotions management has also been developed l that aims to put into practice "routines of emotional change" thus developing the emotional capabilities of the organization for change.