Influence of Emotional Intelligence on Employee Performance among Seleced Restaurants, Chennai.

The intent of the present study is to explore the factors and relationship of emotional intelligence towards employee performance. To analyze employees whether they work in same area or would like to change to other area. The sample size considered for the current studyis 125 and the data was collected from selected top two chettinad restaurants in Chennai, through structured questionnaire. Emotional intelligence(Self-awareness, teamwork, stress and service orientation) as exogenous variable, Motivation and commitment as mediating variables and performance as the endogenous variable was considered to develop a conceptual model. The findings of the study indicate that the factors of Emotional intelligence, commitment, motivation and performance are significant and accepted. There is significant relationship between Emotional intelligence, commitment, motivation and performance where Emotional intelligence plays a vital role in employee performance and the regression model is significant.