Emotional Intelligence for Effective Leadership

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is the individual's ability to recognize, understand, and manage one's own emotions and to influence the emotions of others. In an organization, the leaders connect emotionally with the employees for the organization's success, growth, sustainability, and development. After the COVID-19 pandemic, effective leadership comes more into action where leaders need to understand, regulate self and others' emotions, and act accordingly for organizational change, development, growth, transformation, and sustainability. The study aims to provide insights into emotional intelligence and effective leadership using bibliometric techniques on 403 Scopus-indexed articles from 2012-2022. The study depicts performance analysis, intellectual structure, and thematic structure of emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness. The results highlighted the publication trends, themes and derives future research trends by showcasing the role of emotional intelligence in effective leadership for shaping the future of the work.