Hacioğlu, BurcuHacioğlu, ÜmitDinçer, HasanYarbağ, Pelin ŞahinTuğsal, Türker2024-10-122024-10-122015978-146667485-1; 1466674849; 978-146667484-4https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-7484-4.ch023https://hdl.handle.net/11467/8854There are plenty of researches about EI which have focused on EI and strategic decision making, management capabilities, transformational leadership, managerial traits, personality dimensions. This chapter is putting forth the relationship between EI and managing conflict by theoretical research. In the chapter the authors firstly reiterated the theoretical studies, state the necessity of having high level of EI for accomplishing the decision making process and discuss the relationship between EI, managers and managing conflict. To conclude, the authors state that managers having high EI can understand and evaluate the conflicts among employees and encourage their followers in struggling; with comparison to the ones having low EI. © 2015, IGI Global. All rights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessBook Chapter378392N/A2-s2.0-8495770974410.4018/978-1-4666-7484-4.ch023