Download or read book Emotional Intelligence of Managers and the Effect on Virtual Workers written by Daniel Green and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations are increasingly turning toward telecommuting. Many studies have investigated the relationship of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Employee Engagement (EE) in traditional environments, but it was not known if the EI of managers had any effect on EE scores within a virtual work environment, when the virtual relationship variable was specifically controlled for. The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to test the theory that the EI of managers in a virtual work environment was correlated with the EE scores of workers in a Fortune 500 company. The EQ-i 2.0 EI assessment was administered to 87 managers within a Fortune 500 company that had virtual direct reports, and results from that assessment were compared to EE results from the corporate Pulse survey. A Spearman correlation analysis revealed that there was a significant, positive relationship between overall EI of managers and EE of virtual workers (Σ = .226). The statistical analysis also showed that there was a significant positive relationship between the Manager Self-Expression Composite Score and EE of virtual workers (Σ = .224), but it revealed no relationship between the Manager Interpersonal Composite Score and EE of virtual workers (Σ = .012). The results of this study indicate that the relationship of EI and EE transcends traditional environments and continues to exist in the virtual realm, and that focusing on raising EI within managers can help boost desired business outcomes, like increased EE, within modern Fortune 500 work environments.