Effect of Emotional Intelligence on the Job Performance of IT Professionals

The current study was conducted to find out the effect of Emotional Intelligence on the Job Performance of IT Professionals. A total of 60 subjects were taken between the age group of 25-35 through a method of convenient sampling. Designation of all the employers is “IT Professionals”. All the participants were given the Emotional Intelligence questionnaire. The Manager of the employers was then given Performance Appraisal Questionnaires and all the participants were rated. A within group design was used to find out the relationship between the two variables. The scores of high and low Emotional Intelligence and high and low Performance Appraisal was divided and ‘t’ test was done to find out the significance in both the variables. Chi square test was then used to compare the observed data with the data that was expected to obtain according to the hypothesis. The results showed that there is a positive relation between Emotional Intelligence and Performance Appraisal.