¹Gift J. Eke PhD, ²Ogori Mariana Tamaraudieneni

^1,2Department of Office and Information Management, Faculty of Management Sciences Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State

DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v7-i01-89

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ABSTRACT

The discourse on EI and employee work outcomes has taken up a lot of shelf space in recent times, as indicated in the extant literature. The study primarily investigates the relational outcome between emotional intelligence and managers in Bayelsa state civil service. Th study is cross-sectional in nature which reflect on multiple statement government ministries. Questionnaire was adopted as the main instrument for data collection, and the data collected was descriptively analyzed, while the spearman rank order correlational coefficient was adopted to quantify the empirical relationship between the study variables. The findings of the study are: self-awareness relates significantly with innovativeness, and self-awareness relates significantly with timely delivery. The research discovered a substantial relationship between self-awareness and innovativeness as a performance measure. Therefore, to enhance self-awareness competencies, managers of companies should do a better job of raising awareness of the significance of self-awareness among their personnel, particularly among the managers.

KEYWORDS:

Emotional Intelligence, Managers, Self-awareness.

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