How may Emotional Intelligence or may not be used instead of an I.Q. ?

Answer 1

Do you know what IQ means? It means Intelligence Quotient. It includes a few different types of intelligences. You can't measure emotions in quotient form.

Answer 2

Firstly, IQ is supposed to be a measure of how inellectually clever you are; EI or EQ is about how well you can manage your own emotions; and how sensitive you are to other people's emotions.

So far as I can tell there is NO point of significant overlap, so the idea of using either one "instead of" the other is a non-starter.

As far as their importance is concerned, IQ is actually of very little value for anything. It was originally invented to identify UNDERperformers in French schools, and have been MISused as though they could identify cleverness for nearly a hundred years.

In practice an IQ test measures nothing but your ability to do well in IQ tests. (Personally I do rather well in IQ tests, so this certainly isn't sour grapes.)

Howard Gardner of Harvard U. drew up a list seven different kinds of intelligence (Multiple Intelligences) in the early 1980s, which has more recently grown to eight. Both IQ and EI are covered by Gardner's categories, though neither fits exactly into a single intelligence as described by Gardner.

The basic argument for placing more value on EI rather than IQ is based on the idea that businesses need to treat their employees more sympathetically than before if they want to hold on to their best employees, get the best productivity from employees, and so on. This is as compared with the previous belief that all you needed was to get the most highly qualified people (i.e. best university degrees, highest IQs, etc.)
Trouble is, smart people often have all the sensitivity and grace of an elephant on speed. So, as Goleman has argued, someone's emotional intelligence may well be a better indicator of how well they will be able to serve their company.

The trouble with that is, as has already been said, it's pretty difficult to measure a person's EI or EQ other than by seeing them in action or depending on other people's assessments.

Still, at least we seem to be going in the right direction, eh?

Answer 3

It has recently been conjectured that emotional intelligence may be a better predictor of the success of your future than intelligence quotient. This is because emotional intelligence quotient measures how well you deal with your emotions (mostly stress, anger, and other bad situations).