THE EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON JOB PERFORMANCE OF EXPATRIATE TEACHERS AT INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MYANMAR (ISM) IN YANGON

This study seeks to examine the effect of personality traits on emotional intelligence and to analyze the effect of emotional intelligence on job performance of the expatriate teachers at International School of Myanmar (ISM) in Yangon. The date are collected from 75 expatriate teachers at ISM in Yangon with structured questionnaire. According to the results of study, among five personality traits, extroversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness positively affect emotional intelligence. Moreover, the results also show that, among five domains of emotional intelligence, empathy and self-regulation affect task performance and social skills affect contextual performance of expatriate teachers. The study recommend that ISM should focus on personality traits and emotional intelligence aspects of each expatriate teacher to achieve more authentic performance. ISM needs to be sure that every expatriate teacher is allowed to manage own workflow which will be improve their job performance