EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN MILITARY LEADERSHIP

Abstract

In military structures, the leader has always been at the forefront of organising and carrying out specific actions with the aim of increasing the organisation’s efficiency and effectiveness. Thus, the military organisation’s efficiency and effectiveness are the effects of leaders’ ability to react to disturbances, ensuring optimal orientation of those in command, and finding optimal answers to the questions “how” and “what” is to be done so that the best organisational course of action could be achieved. In this article we consider it appropriate to analyse emotional intelligence, how it influences military leadership, how an optimal affective environment influences the military actions, and to answer the question: Do military leaders need emotional intelligence?