RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS, JOB INVOLVEMENT, ORGANIZATION COMMITMENT AND JOB PERFORMANCE

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence on employee outcomes, specifically this research proposed that organizational politics would negatively relate to emotional intelligence and also will moderate the relationships between emotional intelligence and employee outcomes in the private Pharmaceutical companies in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Design/ Methodology: Quantitative and descriptive approach was used based on cross sectional research design. Data was collected from 193 employees of five pharmaceutical companies of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan using a self-administered questionnaire. Preliminary analyses were performed to satisfy the assumptions, which allow us to analyze the data through SPSS Version 26 and Smart PLS Version 3. Findings: Present research found a positive and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and employees job outcomes-organizational commitment, job performance and job involvement, while found negative relationship with organizational politics. In addition, the research also found that organizational politics moderate the relationship between emotional intelligence and job outcomes. Originality: Present study recommends that Pharmaceutical companies' management to facilitate employee's development through training and knowledge sharing sessions to enhance emotion intelligence and create a political free atmosphere in their firms. Thus, this result provides significant value and knowledge to the Pharmaceutical companies' management to create free organizational politics environment that will increase sustainable job outcomes and higher productivity.