Morkūnaitė, L. (2006). The impact of emotional intelligence to quality of social interaction between manager and subordinate. Unpublished Master Thesis. Kaunas: International School of Management. This Master Thesis is designed for different level managers with the purpose to substantiate the impact of manager‘s emotional intelligence to quality of social interaction between the manager and subordinate. The emphasis of this thesis is put to social interaction as the warranty for effective management. The construct of high quality social interaction is being analyzed and represented as the objective to actualize the obligations of the manager, influence subordinates in the proper way, direct them, i.e. transform their attitudes and efforts towards achievement of company goals. Highest consideration is being shown to transformational social interaction in the context of full range leadership theory by Bass and Avolio. Due to this reason and the essence of transformational interaction it has been chosen as the ground for effective high quality interaction representing the same structure as effective management. Effective social interaction is complex and depends on social, emotional, practical intelligences, social skills and social competences, political skills, interpersonal as well as socio-political intelligences, social foresight, functional flexibility and activity. The focus of this master thesis is put to one of the components of effective social interaction - emotional... [to full text]