Decision Making Styles of IT Professionals in Relation to their Emotional Intelligence

In the current study investigated the relationship between the decision making styles with emotional intelligence among the information technology leaders. The purpose of this paper is to identify practical approaches to the application of emotional intelligence to the decision-making. These practical approaches are designed to instruct and aid decision makers in the utilization of emotional intelligence skills to improve decision-making. The participants were 130 information technology leaders selected through convenient sampling method in Bangalore, India. The Bar-On's emotional intelligence inventory and Decision-Making questionnaire of Leon Mann were utilized to develop a methodology for the practical application of emotional intelligence skills to decision-making. The 31 to 35 aged group information technology leaders were high in vigilance and hyper-vigilance decisional style. Self-regard has a negative relationship with vigilance style of decision-making. Further, implications of the study are discussed in this article.