Role of emotional intelligence and mental health in improving performance

Abstract

Emotional intelligence has been concerned due to its contribution in enhancing occupational mental health at workplace. Many studies had been conducted to examine its role in improving the overall performance of organizations. Till the recent years, new insight has been brought up in examining the effect of emotional intelligence on organizational justice. However, there is insufficient empirical evidence in proving the significant impact of emotional intelligence on organizational justice, especially in Asia context, particularly Malaysian manufacturing sector. Malaysia is known as collectivism country, where the matter of fairness is highly concerned. Hence, it is important to investigate how emotional intelligence improve the perception of fairness among the employees in Malaysia context. Therefore, this conceptual paper proposed to examine the impact of each emotional intelligence’s dimensions on the organizational justice, which might contribute to the existing literature of the effect of emotional intelligence towards organizational justice in Malaysia.