Emotional Intelligence And Job Satisfaction As Correlates Of Job Performance - A Study Among Women Employed In The Indian Software Industry

Dr. J.S. Gunavathy and Ms. R. Ayswarya

Paradigm, 2011, vol. 15, issue 1-2, 58-65

Abstract: The foundation for organisational performance, success and effectiveness is employee performance. The purpose of this paper is to trace the relationship between emotional intelligence, job satisfaction and job performance based on data collected from women employed in the Information Technology (IT) sector in India. This study adopted the survey research methodology and data were collected using questionnaires comprising of standardised tools. Randomly identified women employed in the IT sector (N = 150) constituted the sample. Among others, data analysis revealed that there was a statistically significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence, job satisfaction and job performance and that emotional intelligence and job satisfaction significantly served to predict the variance in job performance.

Keywords: Job performance; emotional intelligence; job satisfaction; women employees; software industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1177/0971890720110109

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