The Link Between Emotional Intelligence and Job Performance Across Male and Female Managers

Based on dual-processing theory of social cognitions, we explore how male and female managers’ emotion understanding and management abilities–the key elements of emotional intelligence (EI)–are differently perceived by their supervisors, which in turn, will unequally contribute to the supervisors’ evaluations of their current and future job performance. Analyses of data collected from 162 managers and their supervisors showed that although...