The Interdependencies of Emotional Intelligence of Project Manager and a Successful Delivery of Innovation – Evidence from UAE

The emotional intelligence mainly stands for the capacity to be aware off, express and control the emotion of an individual. On the other hand, it also can be found that it helps to handle the interpersonal relationship empathetically and judiciously. The entire study mainly focused on the effectiveness of emotional intelligence in the context of delivering a project along with innovation improvement. The primary aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between emotional intelligence of project managers and delivering of project innovation in the first part, the study mainly evaluates the background, along with its significance. Moreover, this part also focused on the research aim, objective and questions based on emotional intelligence to understand its effects on project innovation. In the second part, the study mainly emphasized on the concept of the variable along with the application of different theories on model based upon the emotional intelligence and innovation of project. On the other hand, the study also sheds light on the relationship between project, process innovation and emotional intelligence. In the third part, the study emphasize upon the data analysis of the collected data by utilizing SPSS tool. To examine emotional intelligence among project managers and ascertain its impact on project and process innovation, the study primarily employed a probability sampling technique to choose a sample of 51 project managers in the United Arab Emirates and beyond. Moreover, the current part helps to assess the findings from data analysis to make a proper conclusion regarding effectiveness of emotional intelligence. In the last part, the entire study focused on discussion regarding research objective, besides showing the positive relationship between emotional intelligence and innovation of process and project. The study found that there is a relationship between emotional intelligence and innovative products.