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Description:
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Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to perceive emotion , understand
emotion , facilitate thought with emotion , and regulate emotion . Considerable debate
exists as to whether emotional intelligence adds incremental validity above more wellknown
predictors of performance , namely the Big Five personality traits and cognitive
ability . Furthermore , no theory directly specifies the roles of separate emotional
intelligence (EI ) dimensions in relationship to job performance . This paper offers several
contributions : (a ) a summary of theoretical links between EI and job performance , (b )
meta -analytic incremental validity estimation for two different conceptualizations of
emotional intelligence – labeled ability EI and mixed EI – over and above cognitive
ability and Big Five personality composites , (c ) estimation of Black -White and femalemale
adverse impact attributable to the use of EI for selection purposes , and (d ) a
theoretical model of EI subdimensions , demonstrating that emotion regulation mediates
the effects of emotion perception and emotion understanding on job performance , and
that emotional competencies serve as partial mechanisms for the effects of
Conscientiousness and cognitive ability on performance . |