Emotional intelligence and knowledge sharing as key factors in business management – evidence from Slovak SMEs

ABSTRACT. Over the last decades, researchers have been increasingly studying field of emotional intelligence and knowledge management. However, interaction between these two important factors has not received sufficient attention thus far, therefore this paper aims to assess it. The goal article is impact on willingness transfer examine additional (such as gender generation group). research sample (N=508) consisted employees Slovak SMEs. study was conducted in June-August 2022. A two-way variance analysis a binomial logistic regression were applied. In case Hypotheses 1 2, Emotional Quotient (EQ) figured an independent variable, while group categorical variables. 3, 4 5, model set up using regression, where EQ, all results show that real level EQ. influenced by both EQ gender. importance connection examined during crisis caused COVID-19 Russia-Ukraine war, expanding related human resources. Previous topic quite limited present unique considering issue context SMEs CEE countries.