Beyond the Books: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence for Thriving B-School Professors

The academicians are as of now estimated as the guardians to information and it fruitful use
for the advancement of people as entirety. These general progressions have influenced the
advanced education to part bewildering and centered one.
Additionally, academic staff individuals especially in business schools in India are
persistently under constant pressure for meeting day to day exercises; resultantly they
experience the ill effects of work strife. In this manner it is demonstrated that educating in
business schools is a traumatic work. Worry in the working environment can at last deny
individuals of their soul and enthusiasm for the activity, bringing about hindered individual
working, low inspiration and diminished spirit. Additionally, hosed activity, reduced
excitement for working, high non-attendance rates, lessened capacity to perform, poor
business execution, diminished profitability, low quality control, low quality products and
services, and weakness, poor mental and physical health.
The unsafe impacts of stress are decreased by numerous components identified with the
individual and the organization, one of the most essential factors is emotional intelligence
that shield from the experience of employment. Emotional intelligence has been described as
the capacity of a man to see and fathom one's own feelings and others and control or manage
those sentiments keeping in mind the end goal to animate self and additionally other
individuals for achieving specific objectives. Emotional intelligence assumes a vital part to
condense the feeling of anxiety among teachers. University teachers with elevated level of
emotional intelligence utilize instruments which assist them with adjusting to ecological
changes. Educators with short level of emotional intelligence then again do not have this
capacity to change suitably to changing conditions. This chapter deals with the conceptual
framework of emotional intelligence and occupational stress, and furthermore examines
about the emotional intelligence and occupational stress in the business schools regarding
Indian setting.