A Determination of the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking among Human Resources Practitioners on the Copperbelt Province, Zambia
The purpose of this paper was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and critical thinking among Human Resource Practitioners. To do so, 63 were randomly selected from 75 HR practitioners by the Sample Size based on Desired Accuracy adopted from (Gill et al., 2010) and answered to the survey questionnaires derived from Emotional Intelligence based the Emotional Competency Profiler (ECP) and Critical thinking skills based on the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST). SPSS Version 20 analyzed the data by using descriptive statistics T-test and F-tests level of significance was determined at 0.05. A correlational analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking. The analysis was significant, r (19) = 0.725, p < 0.001. Emotional intelligence and critical thinking among Human Resource Practitioners do come with a significant relationship. However, the weakness of this study is attributed to the small sample size and hence a formal study be conducted targeting a big sample size in the near future to ascertain if there is a significant relationship between the two variables. It is recommended that Emotional Intelligence and Critical thinking skills be included in Diploma in Human Resource Management and also in Bachelor of Arts in Human Resources Management respectively to enhance these skills in students to enable them solve complex Human Relationship problems at the workplaces.
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Mukhalipi, A. and Shane, A. (2019). A Determination of the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Critical Thinking among Human Resources Practitioners on the Copperbelt Province, Zambia. Open Access Library Journal, 6, e5850. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oalib.1105850.
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