The Significance of Emotional Intelligence on the Innovative Work Behavior of Managers as Strategic Decision-Makers

In recent years, the importance of innovation and emotional intelligence on strategic decision making has increased owing to the dynamic changes in the global world. That is why; managers as strategic decision makers play a crucial role and they need emotional intelligence and innovative work behavior together which provide them to make decisions effectively. Additionally the ideas and studies supporting the effect of innovation and emotional intelligence which is as crucial as IQ led to produce new studies to measure the emotional intelligence. In this scope, this paper aims to analyze to what extent emotional intelligence is used by managers and mainly how significant it is on strategic decision making in relation to innovative work behaviors.