An Empirical Study on Personal Competence in Relation to Emotional Intelligence in Bahrain

Abstract

Abstract The purpose of the present study is to investigate the impact of the six emotional intelligence elements identified as (i) self awareness, (ii)self motivation and (iii)self regulation of personal competence and (iv) social awareness (v) social skills and (vi) emotional receptivity of social competence towards employee competence in the organizations. The study was conducted in the Kingdom of Bahrain. For this purpose a structured questionnaire was developed to be used by the researcher based on emotional i ntelligence competencies as given by Daniel Goleman (1995, 98). The data has been collected through primary and secondary sources and has been analyzed by using descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation with sample size of 50 employees fro m selected organizations in Bahrain. The results show a positive significance between emotional intelligence and Employee Competence. Further the employees opined more mean score regarding self awareness, self motivation and emotional regulation on persona l competence than social awareness, social skills and emotional receptivity of social competence of total group employees. Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Personal Competence, Social Competence, Employees, Organization, Social awareness, Social skills, Emotional receptivity.