Gender Differences in Emotional Intelligence, Individual Readiness for Change and Psychological Capital of employees working in startups
Keywords:
emotional intelligence, readiness to change, psychological capital, start-upAbstract
With increasing globalization, an increasing number of start-ups have flourished in India. With the changing environment and market needs, these start-ups are prone to significant amount of changes. In this context, change ready employees become competitive advantage for the organization when they portray high level of self-efficacy, hope, optimism and resilience. Following this, the study aimed to explore the gender difference in Emotional Intelligence, Individual Readiness for Change and Psychological Capital of employees working in startups.
The respondents of the study were employees between the age group of 23-35 working in any start-up in India. Data were collected from employees working in startups (N = 103; M = 57; F = 46) through three standard and validated questionnaires on Emotional Intelligence, Individual Readiness to Change and Psychological Capital (PsyCap). The analysis was done using Spearman’s Correlation test and Independent Sample Mann-Whitney U test for all the three variables. The results showed no significant correlation between the variables. However, a significant gender difference was found in Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Capital. Also, gender difference was found in emotional competency as well as self efficacy which are dimensions of emotional intelligence and psychological capital respectively. This research makes a novel contribution by being among the first to examine the relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Individual Readiness to Change and Psychological capital together among employees working in start-ups in India.
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