Emotional intelligence has been receiving a lot of attention from researchers in the area of organizational behavior for the last several years. It is seen as a necessary skill for ensuring success in any business career. Business schools would do well to incorporate emotional intelligence training in their curriculum to ensure a successful career for their graduating students.

The first paper in this issue of IJOB, is an empirical research work titled, "Reception of Emotional Intelligence Training by Management Students", authored by R Krishnamurthi and S Ganesan. The study demonstrates how business schools can enhance the emotional intelligence of their graduates by imparting experiential learning through a specially designed training and development module. Enhancement of emotional intelligence through well-designed experiential learning modules has been statistically verified on business school students.

The second paper titled, "Emotional Intelligence and Perceived Stress", authored by Yogamaya Panda, investigates the relationship between emotional intelligence and perceived stress among management students in a business school. The study reveals that emotional intelligence is negatively correlated with perceived stress and no gender differences exist for emotional intelligence and perceived role stress among management students.

Authored by Christo F V Fernandes, Satish Kumar and Nandakumar Mekoth, the third paper titled, "Length of Service and Role Stress" studies the relationship between the length of service and role stress in groups formed on the basis of length of service. The study finds that six types of role stress as well as the total role stress reduces along with the length of service.

The fourth paper titled, "Learning Organization: Exploring Employee Perception", authored by Kartinah Ayupp and Anandan Perumal, studies employee perception about factors responsible for building a successful learning organization in a financial firm in Malaysia. Human Resource Development (HRD) resources emerged as the dominant factor for building a successful learning organization.

Authored by Nirmala Kaushik and Manju Singh Tonk, the fifth paper titled, "Personality and Quality of Work Life" has established that some dimensions of personality are related with the Quality of Work Life (QWL). `Extroversion' is positively correlated with opportunities to use and develop human capacity. `Agreeableness' is positively correlated with social integration in the work force. `Conscientiousness' is positively correlated with opportunities to use and develop human capacity, social integration in the work force and constitutionalism in the work organization.

The sixth paper titled, "Job Satisfaction and Psychological Well-Being", authored by Neerpal Rathi and Renu Rastogi, studies the relationship among job satisfaction, psychological well-being and personal variables on employees in different organizations. Emergence of job satisfaction as a significant predictor of psychological well-being and the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between employee rank and psychological well-being, peaking at mid-rank have been reported in this study.

The issue ends with the paper titled, "Achievement Motivation Amongst Front Line Managers", authored by J K Nandi. The paper studies the achievement motivation among front line managers through Thematic Appreciation Test (TAT) on 100 respondents from four different organizations in Maharashtra. The study concludes that 27% of the front line managers in the study were achievement-oriented and thus calls for efforts for enhancing achievement motivation among front line managers in Indian industries.

- Avinash Kumar Srivastav
Consulting Editor