Emotional Knowledge and Intelligence Dynamics
Emotional Knowledge and Intelligence Dynamics

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present the importance of emotional knowledge and intelligence dynamics in the organizational intellectual capital. Western culture put the emphasis on the rational, cognitive knowledge and intelligence, ignoring almost completely the emotional knowledge and intelligence from the decision making process in science and in management. Descartes stressed the fact that mind is more important than the body, and he promoted the dualism of mind and body. By contrast, the Eastern culture put the emphasis on the oneness of body and mind, and thus the emotional knowledge and intelligence became at least as important as the cognitive one. Emotional knowledge can be transformed into cognitive knowledge based on relation we do not know at this moment. However, emotional knowledge is not the same with emotional intelligence. While emotional knowledge reflects a field of existing emotions and feelings, emotional intelligence reflects the capacity of processing both emotional and cognitive knowledge.

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