Study of the impact of emotional intelligence cognitive competencies and locus of control on the performance of aspiring managers

Abstract

The Indian industry has voiced its concern that most management graduates are unemployable because of skill deficiency The skills they look for are well articulated and in general conforms to the generic skills postulated in Human Capital Theory The intake into the management program is based on the Management Aptitude Test MAT Score and the Group Discussion and Personal Interview GDPI score These are supposed to measure the potential of the individual to learn the generic and technical managerial skills If MAT and GDPI scores indeed measure this potential subject to an appropriate process they would possess the generic skills Since this is not so the problem could lie either with the intake measure or with the process This study is about the appropriateness of the intake measure Keeping this in mind the research aims at iidentifying skills defined by the industry and develop a measure for the same and also identify and measure the impact of those variables that would predict performance