Role of Emotions and Spirituality at Modern Day Efficient Work Spaces

1. Introduction

Modern day work places depend on team work where human interaction is at its core. Technology has enabled us to work-from-anywhere but still, person-to-person interactions are at the foundation of all organizational activities.

Our interactions with our peers, family, friends etc. are guided by our personality.

Human personality is defined as sum total of ways in which a person interacts with and reacts to the environment. Gestalt theory “Whole is greater than the sum of its parts” provides us the perfect explanation of how different intelligences or capacities come together and lead to the formation of personality.

Traditionally intelligence has been associated with cognitive and logical abilities only. Ability that leads one to perform well on some standardized problem solving tests. However, this definition of intelligence did not take into account the various other faculties available with the human mind. Personal intelligence is no longer taken as the true and only indicator of human performance. Human behaviors stems from the innate qualities of an individual. Behavior encompasses a whole range of actions and human conducts, specially towards others.

By taking a very confined view of intelligence, and limiting oneself to cognitive intelligence or intelligence quotient (IQ) only one cannot define the wide variations or ranges in human behavior. Continued research in this area has provided us with a new definition of human intelligence, one which takes into account other forms of intelligences as well.

Gardner (1983) has described nine types of intelligences.