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Does emotional intelligence matter to academic work performance? Evidence from business faculties in Australia

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  • Lu Jiao
  • Graeme Harrison
  • Jinhua Chen
  • Kym Butcher

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Using data collected through survey questionnaire across 15 universities, we examine the effect of emotional intelligence on academic work performance (in research, teaching and service) in Australian business faculties. We find academics’ ability to use emotion enhances performance across research, teaching and service, while ability to regulate emotion enhances performance for teaching and service only. We also find support for a process‐based model of emotional intelligence in which appraisal of emotion is a necessary antecedent to emotion’s use and regulation. The results have implications for management in appointment decisions and professional development programmes in business/accounting faculties.

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  • Lu Jiao & Graeme Harrison & Jinhua Chen & Kym Butcher, 2021. "Does emotional intelligence matter to academic work performance? Evidence from business faculties in Australia," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 61(1), pages 1181-1204, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:61:y:2021:i:1:p:1181-1204
    DOI: 10.1111/acfi.12607
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