Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Employee Performance-A Study

Abstract

Human emotions on the given situation greatly describe the nature of the individual. This results in the outcome of that individual’s decisions or doings. Hence influencing, empathizing and handling the emotions smartly will impact the human’s outcome. The Emotional Intelligence improves the employees’ performance, it drew more attention among managers, educators and scholars. It can be explained as the ability to understand and recognize the meaning of emotions which includes the emotion related feelings assimilation and its perceivable capacity and analysing them and applying it to reason or to fix the problems. In this connection, there is a need to study the emotional intelligence and its impact on employee performance. This paper discusses the major concept of emotion intelligence, major model of emotion intelligence and influence of emotional intelligence on employee work performance. For this purpose, the explanatory research method used to present this paper. It is concluded that the Emotional Intelligence empowers individuals to motivate themselves, boost their persistent levels, control their impulses and regulate their moods, thus it manages one’s ability to think, empathize and hope.