标题：RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL PERFORMANCE: The Mediating Effect of Entrepreneurial Competence ►Godday Orziemgbe Oriarewo,
期刊名称：Australian Journal of Business and Management Research
电子版ISSN：1839-0846
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：8
页码：1-9
DOI：10.52283/NSWRCA.AJBMR.20140408A01
语种：English
出版社：New South Wales Research Centre Australia (NSWRCA)
摘要：Research has shown that individuals with greater emotional intelligence are better able to appraise, manage and regulate the emotions of others. Such abilities allow these individuals to judge if their emotions are linked to opportunities, and thus use these emotions in the process of decision making that enhances higher performance. Consequent upon this, there is substantial evidence documenting the effects of emotional intelligence on leadership and educational performance. However, there is much less research examining how emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial competence affects entrepreneurial performance. This study therefore employed the creation theory to investigate the mediating effect of entrepreneurial competence on the relationship between the dimensions of emotional intelligence (i.e., self emotional appraisal, others’ emotional appraisal, regulation of emotions and use of emotions) and entrepreneurial performance. The study adopted ex-post-facto, simple random sampling technique and questionnaire to generate data from selected respondents in the hospitality industry in Makurdi metropolis, Benue State, Nigeria. The data were analysed using multiple regression statistical method. It was found that entrepreneurial competence mediates the relationship between the dimensions of emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial performance. In view of this, enterprises’ owners should ensure that their managers and employees are emotionally intelligent and entrepreneurially competent through a well planned recruitment and selection process.
关键词：Emotional intelligence;Entrepreneurial performance;Entrepreneurial competence;Regulation of emotion;Use of emotion;Self emotional appraisal;Others’ emotional appraisal
