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Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness

The recent trend has introduced the emotional quotient or intelligence (EQ) as the essential concepts to the psychology and management for academicians. EQ describes a person's ability to sense and respond appropriately to emotions. Thus, this paper seeks to examine the impact of EQ on private...

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Main Authors: Ahmad Shah, Norliana, Saad, Mazni, Mohamad Mohan, Noor Malinda, Poniran, Halimi
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Published: Global Academic Excellence 2018
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HM1001 Social psychology
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/65617/1/IJAFB%202018WORKING%20IN%20PRIVATE%20UNIVERSITIES%20DOES%20EMOTIONAL%20INTELLIGENCE%20MATTER%20FOR%20JOB%20EFFECTIVENESS.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.656172023-01-30T09:33:23Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/65617/ Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness Ahmad Shah, Norliana Saad, Mazni Mohamad Mohan, Noor Malinda Poniran, Halimi HM1001 Social psychology The recent trend has introduced the emotional quotient or intelligence (EQ) as the essential concepts to the psychology and management for academicians. EQ describes a person's ability to sense and respond appropriately to emotions. Thus, this paper seeks to examine the impact of EQ on private university lecturers’ job effectiveness. A primary goal is to explore the EQ of the private universities’ lecturers and examine how it predicts their job effectiveness beyond the ability. Quantitative analysis in the form of a survey was used in this study. A total of 20 private universities were listed and approached; however, only five universities agreed to participate. The cross-sectional data collection was done within a month, and the data obtained in the survey were analysed with the IBM-SPSS. The results showed that emotional intelligence has a significant impact on job effectiveness of the lecturers. However, only self-regulation and social skill are statistically significant, with selfregulation variable represents the strongest unique contribution to explain the job effectiveness. The findings of the study suggest that employees can apply their personal emotional experience into their work well. Also, it helps them to develop strong emotional bonding with those people associated with their work and leads to organizational performance. Hence, it is particularly imperative for a private university to use EQ to predict job effectiveness. Global Academic Excellence 2018-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/65617/1/IJAFB%202018WORKING%20IN%20PRIVATE%20UNIVERSITIES%20DOES%20EMOTIONAL%20INTELLIGENCE%20MATTER%20FOR%20JOB%20EFFECTIVENESS.pdf Ahmad Shah, Norliana and Saad, Mazni and Mohamad Mohan, Noor Malinda and Poniran, Halimi (2018) Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness. International Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business, 3 (10). pp. 87-96. E-ISSN 0128-1844 http://www.ijafb.com/PDF/IJAFB-2018-10-06-08.pdf
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Ahmad Shah, Norliana
Saad, Mazni
Mohamad Mohan, Noor Malinda
Poniran, Halimi
Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness
description The recent trend has introduced the emotional quotient or intelligence (EQ) as the essential concepts to the psychology and management for academicians. EQ describes a person's ability to sense and respond appropriately to emotions. Thus, this paper seeks to examine the impact of EQ on private university lecturers’ job effectiveness. A primary goal is to explore the EQ of the private universities’ lecturers and examine how it predicts their job effectiveness beyond the ability. Quantitative analysis in the form of a survey was used in this study. A total of 20 private universities were listed and approached; however, only five universities agreed to participate. The cross-sectional data collection was done within a month, and the data obtained in the survey were analysed with the IBM-SPSS. The results showed that emotional intelligence has a significant impact on job effectiveness of the lecturers. However, only self-regulation and social skill are statistically significant, with selfregulation variable represents the strongest unique contribution to explain the job effectiveness. The findings of the study suggest that employees can apply their personal emotional experience into their work well. Also, it helps them to develop strong emotional bonding with those people associated with their work and leads to organizational performance. Hence, it is particularly imperative for a private university to use EQ to predict job effectiveness.
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author Ahmad Shah, Norliana
Saad, Mazni
Mohamad Mohan, Noor Malinda
Poniran, Halimi
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Saad, Mazni
Mohamad Mohan, Noor Malinda
Poniran, Halimi
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title Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness
title_short Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness
title_full Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness
title_fullStr Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness
title_full_unstemmed Working in private universities does emotional intelligence matter for job effectiveness
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