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Abstract
Emotional intelligence plays a key role and it is more vital than any other human capital asset in organizations. As the pace of work greater demands individual competencies, EI is the centrality of the substance of the individual or group for their effective management. Indeed, fitting new insights into people’s neural and emotional circuitry, EI accounts for 85 to 95 percent of the success of organizational leaders. Since majority of the concerns in organization involve people in different job roles, the competencies possessed by the people will have a bearing on the extent to which they can actualize their emotional intelligence. The aim of the paper sets out to examine the relationship between the emotional intelligence and personal competencies of executives’ in Pharmaceutical companies in and around Visakhapatnam. A sample of 120 self-administered questionnaires were distributed, focus on emotional intelligence (dependent variable) and the four dimensions of personal competencies of People Management, Team Orientation, Problem Solving and Communication. The test results revealed that emotional intelligence has a significant relationship with the competencies of people management, team orientation, problem solving and the competency of communication is found not positive association with the EI in executives. The above findings can help us to conclude that executives of pharma companies perceived the focus on personal competencies is inevitable for the existence and sustenance of emotional intelligence.