Examining the moderating role of organizational emotional culture on the relationship between leader emotional intelligence and employee job performance in South Africa's additive manufacturing industry.

Autor: Jnr, Sampson Afrifa, Dzogbewu, Thywill Cephas, Dennis, Dzansi Yao, de Beer, Deon Johan
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Zdroj: International Journal of Research in Business & Social Science; Jul2024, Vol. 13 Issue 5, p293-309, 17p
Abstrakt: South Africa's additive manufacturing research has mostly concentrated on engineering and technical aspects, with a lack of studies on management and organizational dynamics. To fill this gap, we conducted research on the direct and moderating links between leader emotional intelligence, organizational emotional culture, and employee job performance in South African additive manufacturing enterprises. We used a deductive research approach, a quantitative research method, and a cross-sectional explanatory correlational study design. Our study used simple random sampling to select 148 employees of additive manufacturing firms in South Africa. Questionnaires served as the data collection instruments, and online data gathering was done using Google Forms. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26 software was used for data coding, data entry, and descriptive statistics. Smart PLS 4 was used to conduct partial Least Squares (PLS) Structural Equation Modelling. Findings of the study showed that significant positive relationships exist between leader emotional intelligence and employee job performance as well as organizational emotional culture. A significant positive relationship also exists between organizational emotional culture and employee job performance. Organizational emotional culture was found to moderate the relationship between leader emotional intelligence and employee job performance. The finding has positive implications for adopting leader emotional intelligence as a strategic managerial resource to enhance staff performance and organizational emotional environment. Our finding therefore suggests the need for training and development on leader emotional intelligence to enhance positive organizational environment and enhance staff job performance among additive manufacturing firms in South Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index