Evaluating Emotional Quota: A DEA-Based Approach (Case Study: Yadegar Emam, Shahr-e Rey Islamic Azad University)

For many years, it was believed that Intelligence Quota (IQ) was the benchmark showing how successful one is. However, recent researches have revealed that IQ is not the only factor in one's success but also, other criteria called as Emotional Quota (EQ) has taken its place in many researches. Since the inception of this structure, psychologists mainly paid attention on its cognitive aspects, such as memory and problem solving. Soon, they realized that non-cognitive aspects like emotional and social factors played a key role as well. To study the importance of this issue, a random sample of 81 Electronic and Mechanic engineering graduates from Islamic Azad University, Yadegar Emam Branch, were selected. They were handed out a questioner on EQ derived from Travis-Bradberry book. The collected data evaluated applying Data Enveloping Analysis (DEA) models. In order to rank and distinguish the students’ performance, super efficiency models were employed. The results show that the Electronic graduates scored some higher rank. Top of all, the study conflicts the selected four factors in evaluating EQ and reveals that the relationship- management factor has the most effect and self-management factor can take the least influence in this evaluation.