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Abstract:
Emotional Intelligence plays a significant role in a dynamic business environment that managers and employees try to deal with the changes. It is quite obvious after many research those employees who have emotional intelligence skills; apart from their technical and logical skills have an advantage in today's competitive business world. On the other hand, engaged employees who are aware of their respective jobs and goals could contribute much more to their organizations and they feel their selves more energetic, dedicated and passionate to put their companies forward. The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of emotional intelligence dimensions, which are self-management, self-awareness, social-awareness and relationship management on employee engagement with the moderating role of gender. In this study, three dimensions of employee engagement are taken into consideration, which is physical, emotional and cognitive engagement. A quantitative survey method was used to collect data from 245 professionals from private sector companies in Istanbul. In order to collect this primary data, convenience sampling approach has been followed. The empirical outcomes of this study showed that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and employee engagement among professionals whereas there is not a potential moderator impact of gender between the relationship of emotional intelligence and employee engagement.
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