Emotional Intelligence, Sense of Humor, and Job Satisfaction

Emotional intelligence is essential to the success of individuals and organizations in business. Sense of humor in employees, managers, and leaders is also vital to organization culture. This has caused individuals to seek a deeper understanding of the affect skills in themselves and others at work, leading to questions such as, is emotional intelligence and sense of humor related, do they influence individuals, teams, organizations and job satisfaction? Renewed interest about job satisfaction, from an affective perspective rather than from a cognitive perspective has arisen because past job satisfaction research emphasized the cognitive aspect and discounted emotions. This book also asked are individuals with higher emotional intelligence and sense of humor more satisfied at work? Does gender, age, ethnicity, management level, specialty or years of experience make a difference to emotional intelligence, sense of humor and job satisfaction? This analysis can help employees, managers and leaders in their job in any organization. Those interested in communication, organizational management behavior and psychology will find this research of value and applicable.

Ph.D. in Organization and Management, Capella University. Developed and managed several Service Offices at Eastern Michigan University and currently the Program Coordinator for the Industrial Distribution program at University. Teaches emotional intelligence and humor at work seminars for the American Society of Employers in Michigan.