Emotional Intelligence, Self-Efficacy and Job Performance of University Lecturers

Individuals with high emotional intelligence and high self-efficacy are capable in completing difficult tasks and subsequently, produce excellent job performances irrespective of how hectic their work situations are. This study looks at the correlations between emotional intelligence and job performance, as well as between self-efficacy and job performance among lecturers at a centre of foundation studies owned by a public university in Selangor. Due to its quite small population size, total population sampling technique was applied. Questionnaires were distributed to all 140 lecturers there, but only 86 lecturers completed them (response rate = 61.4%). The findings revealed there was a statistically significant and positive correlation between emotional intelligence and job performance, as well as there was a statistically significant and positive correlation between self-efficacy and job performance. All four emotional intelligence dimensions: regulation of emotion, self-emotional appraisal, use of emotion and others emotional appraisalas well as all three self-efficacy dimensions: teaching, research and other academic or service-related activities were also statistically significant and positively correlated with job performance. As for the implications of this study, it contributes to the corpus of knowledge in the area of emotional intelligence, self-efficacy and job performance among lecturers in Malaysia context