Emotional Capability, Emotional Intelligence and Radical Change:

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Emotional capability, emotional intelligence and radical change: The article starts discussing the interaction between emotion and strategic action and proposing a model that “link the influence of emotion to three dynamics underpinning radical change: receptivity, mobilization, and learning”. This change can be always considered both at the individual and organizational levels and the three dynamics could also be seen like the “three critical processual challenges related to the realization of radical change”. Talking about the emotion Huy discusses “how various attributes of emotional intelligence can facilitate change and social adaption at the individual level, and how attributes of emotional capability can facilitate radical change at the organizational level”. Starting from Receptivity we’ll analyze the role of all the “processual challenges” in both the 2 levels. At the individual one, receptivity denotes person’s wish to consider change; at the organizational one it “refers to organization members’ willingness to consider proposed changes and to recognize the legitimacy of such proposal”. About the Mobilization, at the individual level it refers to the “concrete action taken by a person in the direction of change”; at the organizational one, it refers to the “process of rallying and propelling different segment of the organization to undertake joint action and to realize common change goals”. Mobilization involves collaborative know-how, the capacity to implement change that “cut across department, individual, and time” and it needs “active collaboration between team members”. Moreover mobilization during radical changes require emotional energy, “strong motivation and commitments promote strong effort to complete the action in spite of great difficulties”. In the end we should say that mobilization and receptivity interact. Lazarus teach that

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