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Abstract
The era of business and commerce have witnessed the swift in alternation towards globalization and competitiveness among the organization. Expanding technological advancement and development of service industry runs as an inseparable unit growing performance demands. In order to ensure remarkable performance the human resource today is required to perform physically and emotionally.Thus,emotional intelligence (EI)is acquired crucial importance in the field of human resource,EI is the ability to sense ,understand and effectively apply power and acumen of emotions to a source as a human energy ,information, connection and influence. The primary objective of this study is to examine the relationship between job performance and emotional intelligence among the employees in the organization. The methodology implied is primary in nature, the sample for the study is 240 employees working at various level of management, the statistical tools employed are correlation and regression analysis to examine the relationship between dependent and independent variables. The findings of the study states that the employees with high EI possess better working relationship with other employees, in turn reflecting on higher integrity. EI in associate with its components; emotional perception, emotional appraisal and emotional regulations are positively corelated to indicators of job performance. Thus, the present study implies the importance of EI, contributing to the growing model of literature seeking the relationship between EI and job performance and also suggests that EI is a major predictors of job performance.