LEADER’S EMOTIONAL AND SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE IMPACT ON INDIVIDUAL WORK PERFORMANCE: PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA

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Pavan Ratnayake, Thilageswary Arumugam, Mahiswaran Selvanathan, Mahadevan Supramaniam

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This paper examined some of the key antecedents that drives individual work performance of leaders in Colombo. Private universities in Sri Lanka is currently growing twice as fast as any other industry, forcing many of Sri Lankan universities to innovate and compete in global markets. Therefore, high performance of these universities is important. However, past literature in Sri Lanka on individual work performance of leaders who are driving the high performance have not discussed with regard to the importance of emotional and social intelligence. The present study attempts to fill the research gap by focusing on emotional and social factors that impact leader’s individual work performance for Private universities in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This is a quantitative research study which is using a survey method; data was collected from 219 leaders from private universities in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The findings revealed that self-management and self-awareness which are emotional intelligence factors have a significant impact on individual work performance of leaders. Further, findings also reveals that social awareness and relationship management which are social intelligence factors have a significant impact on individual work performance as well. Results of this study provides valuable insights for creating effective individual work performance environment and organisational strategies in human resources in order to influence the overall organisational performance which will lead into better organizational behaviour and culture with the growth in human resources within the private universities in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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