Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Employee Performance

Emotional Intelligence is very important now a days in an organization by considering new trends of employees and diversity in an organization.Highly emotionally intelligent leaders are much more likely to move or motivate their team members and connect with them.Adding to it, a very strong emotional intelligence helps the leader manage their emotions and understand their employees' emotions, thus inspiring a culture of trust and mutual respect.Employees having high EI are better leaders, able to take stress, deliberate under pressure and lead.This research investigates how the emotional Intelligence (EI) attributes influence employee performance in organizations, such as stress management, emotional self-awareness, interpersonal relate-ships, conflict resolution, general emotional awareness in the workplace, etc. running a survey-based study with 50 respondents covering gender, age, educational qualification, job position, tenure, and EI-related competencies.This analysis shows that a large number of workers are rather young with a high educational profile and have very recent exposure to their respective organizations.Emotional Intelligence states under selfawareness and stress management the basis of really how employees perform and behave with each other in the work environment.The findings show that although most employees account for emotional regulation skills, a good number of them find difficulty in stress management, emotional reflection, and interpersonal relationships.In summary, conclusively, the study asserts that the development of EI must be pursued by organizations for the enhancement of employee performance, productivity, and harmony at the workplace.The findings shed light on the important implications of building an emotionally intelligent, high-performing workforce for HR professionals and organizational leaders.