Abstract:
Emotional Intelligence is a topic of significance since last two decades and it is
believed followed by being proven to be a solution for several problems in an
organizational setup. This study was conducted to test the relationship between
organizational politics and emotional intelligence in the workplace. The
employees‘ perception of organizational politics was compared for its status
between public sector bank employees and new private sector bank employees.
472 samples were used to study the relationship between organizational
politics and emotional intelligence among banking sector employees. The
samples were chosen by using multi stage random sampling by probability
method. Perception of organizational politics was found to have a strong
correlation with emotional intelligence. The employees‘ perception of
organizational politics was profound among public sector bank employees
rather than new private sector bank employees. Emotional intelligence of the
employees needs to be enhanced in order to reduce the organizational politics
by providing training on emotional intelligence. This research adds value to the
existing literature by highlighting the relationship between emotional
intelligence and organizational politics. The findings show that emotional
intelligence has a strong correlation with employees‘ perceptions of politics,
and this in turn affects the employee attitude in the workplace. The major
political practices were compared between public sector banks and new private
sector banks and their finding adds value to the Indian literature.
