Role of emotional intelligence among relationship of work related stress, training and development and employee performance of teaching faculty of Public Sector College Education of Pakistan

  • Amir Bux Pirzada et al.

Abstract

The teaching staff of any educational institute is treated as an asset to that organization. And
they are expected to perform well, face the pressure to maintain the emotions, update their
knowledge in a challenging environment. Therefore, keeping in sight the objective of research
regarding the performance of teaching staff of government colleges, the current study has
examined the relationship of the training and development, work related stress with employee
performance. For a clearer view, the current study additionally checked the mediation by
emotional intelligence between the relationship of training and development, work related stress
with employee performance of the government college teachers in Sukkur region. For achieving
the desired outcomes data was collected from 278 respondents from the government colleges of
Sukkur district Sindh Pakistan. At the first stage, data screening was done through SPSS25, and
model testing was done through the SEM technique through AAMOS 22. Research outcome
shows that work related stress has a negative significant effect on emotional intelligence and
employee performance, while, training and development have a positive significant outcome on
emotional intelligence and employee performance. Emotional intelligence also has a positive
significant outcome on employee performance. Concerning mediation, emotional intelligence
mediated the relationship between training and development, work related stress with employee
performance. Theoretically, the current study has a contribution towards the body of knowledge
to employee performance through training and development, emotional intelligence, and work
related stress under the umbrella of social exchange theory. Detailed discussion on results and
conclusion is given in the article

Published
2020-04-13