Organizational Psychology

This article is devoted to the analysis and systematization of research, revealing the factors of the relationship of the level of emotional intelligence of a manager with group activities. Propose. The article provides an overview of the models of emotional intelligence. Findings. It is shown that models of cognitive abilities and mixed models go the way of parallel development. A classification of models of emotional intelligence according to the following parameters is presented: type of model, structure and method of diagnosis. All models are related to these parameters. The analysis showed that the models of cognitive abilities and their diagnostic tools have a greater structural unity than mixed models, which allows the use of methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization to identify the factors interconnecting the emotional intelligence of a manager with the group’s activities. Analyzed foreign studies that study the impact of the level of emotional intelligence leader on group activity, efficiency and organizational climate. The groups of factors of interrelation of the level of emotional intelligence of a manager with the activity of the group are determined: factors-conditions and factors-results.The factors-conditions: the climate of the team, the psychological safety of the team’s work, inspiration, reduction of the effects of stress and negative emotions, motivation and group satisfactionin performing the task. Team performance, the effectiveness of the tasks in the group, the increase in the quality of the tasks are the result factors. Analyzed and highlighted the key factors — the conditions of the relationship of the level of emotional intelligence leader with group activities. Key factors include: organizational climate, organizational identification, job satisfaction. Value of results. Due to the ambiguity of the nature of the relationship of these constructs, it is hypothesized that the level of emotional intelligence of the manager will be interconnected with all three constructs. Additional research is needed to confirm the hypothesis.