Jen Ling Gan Halimah Mohd Yusof
Taylor’s University, Selangor Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is able to help an individual to perform better as well as to
maintain good relationship with co-workers in organizations. Gender is known to be one of
the possible factors that could contribute to EI among employees. However, limited effort
was exerted in investigating gender difference in the dimensionality of EI, particularly
in the context of Malaysian manufacturing sector. Therefore, the main purpose of this
research is to investigate the gender difference in EI among 203 employees in selected
Malaysian manufacturing companies through the method of simple random sampling.
The result indicated that there was no gender difference in global EI as well as all EI
dimension, except Regulation of Emotion.
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