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Emotional maturity, a key trait

VISAKHAPATNAM: Many corporate organisations have begun realising the importance of personal traits like emotional maturity which an average manager should possess for delivering better results.

According to Labour Enforcement Officer (Central) from Gulbarga in Karnataka state, T. Surya Prakash Rao, emotional maturity is a sense of ability to respond to a situation in a measured or appropriate manner. “To be more precise, if a cricketer fails in a game, people will make a big hue and cry and will burn his effigy, etc. Is that sort of reaction needed for a simple failure?

This is what is meant by lack of emotional maturity. An emotionally mature person does not behave like this and will have his emotional balance or stability,” he says.

Today, many corporate managements were going in for recommending training to their managers on this aspect, he notes.

For, otherwise there could not be good relationship with their employees and could end up in loss of productivity, he opines.

“The levels of emotional immaturity can be experienced mostly in service industries.

Today, if we see the bank managers, they sit for longer hours to meet their targets fixed.

As a result, they will lose their work-life balance and end up in stress which may lead to heart disease and diabetes. Such kind of managers in the service industries should strike proper work-life balance. To achieve this, there will not be any quick-fix solutions. They need to be trained to develop this skill or trait,” Mr. Surya Prakash Rao observes.

If a manager is pulled up for lack of performance, he would take that from a personal angle.

What is required to be seen is that professional life is different from personal life.

Unfortunately, both were mixed due to emotional immaturity. Emotional maturity could be achieved through proper and timely induction of training what the present day corporates should notice, he states.

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