Relationship of Emotional Intelligence, Workplace Spirituality and Performance

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to examine the influence of emotional and spiritual intelligence on the performance of selected IT employees working in Chennai city. Spiritual intelligence also makes every individual more concerned with other and the accepted surroundings. Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation and Self-Competence are the construct under Emotional Intelligence. The study population comprised the employee of IT sector at Chennai region. The required sample size was initially arrived by conduction pilot survey. From the pilot study the sample size estimated was 381 and which was collected through stratified random sampling method. The Analysis of Confirmatory Factor was conducted to acquire a measurement model for the research and also to confirm the factor structure identified in the EFA analysis in view to simplify the relationship between observed measures and latent variables. The result indicated that there is no effect between the self-regulatory and self-competence and workplace spirituality and self-awareness on work performance. The results of the study indicate that the spiritual intelligence in IT employees affect the increase or decrease in the job performance of their work place.