Impact Of Emotional Intelligence On Employee Performance In Project Management

This study examined the impact of emotional intelligence on employee performance in project management.This research also investigated the mediating effect of work engagement and moderating effect of project manager's competence amongst the emotional intelligence and project employee performance.Data was collected from the organizations involved in construction projects,situated in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.For the data collection,convenient sampling technique was used.Responses from employees and their supervisors were recorded separately through the distributed questionnaires.Out of 250 distributed questionnaires,220 were retrieved.The findings of the research suggest that the work engagement significantly but partially mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence and project employee performance.The current study also revealed that project manager's competence moderates the relationship among emotional intelligence and work engagement w-hile partially mediated by work engagement.This study is a significant contribution in the domain of project management suggesting some directions for further research and it has numerous implications at managerial and academic level.