IJMSS Vol.05 Issue-02, (February, 2017) ISSN: 2321-1784 International Journal in Management and Social Science (Impact Factor- 6.178) A Monthly Double-Blind Peer Reviewed Refereed Open Access International Journal - Included in the International Serial Directories International Journal in Management and Social Science http://www.ijmr.net.in email id- irjmss@gmail.com Page 48 Emotional Intelligence and its Impact on Job Performance in an Automotive company (Case Study) Dr.B.Radha Professor, P.G.Dept of Commerce and Management Studies, VRS&YRN College Chirala, A.Bhavani Shree, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysore – 02, Vijayalakshmi Urs K, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering, Mysore – 02, Abstract: In any organization job performance of the employees is a very important part that to in a manufacturing sector employee’s success leads to the success of the organization; this can be achieved due to emotional intelligence. This study targets at measuring the emotional intelligence of employees and investigating the relationship between the 2 variables emotional intelligence (EI) and job performance (JP) of employees at Automotive Axles Limited. This study uses questionnaire method to collect the data. The sample includes 50 middle level employees. . This study also shows that there is average positive relationship between both the variables which has been proved by correlation tests. Through regression test it is proved that there is an average about 47% of dependence of job performance on emotional intelligence. This study concludes that emotional intelligence is a major factor that affects job performance of employees in this company. Introduction In any organization there could be many factors that have an impact on job performance of employees. One of the major factor that is been recognized in the recent years is Emotional intelligence that is known as EI. Emotional intelligence can be said as the ability of an individual to identify, understand, use and also effective managing of emotions, so that it relieves stress and communicate effectively with everyone or peers, empathize with everyone, overcome challenges that arise in workplace and also family life, and also defuse conflict with everyone. This would help him/her to perform better in the organization, be more productive, reduce conflicts with others, build relationships within the organization as well as understand emotions of others which are helps employee’s to perform better in organization. Managing, understanding, using one’s emotions play a very important role for an employee. Many times at work place people finds it difficult to manage emotions and which becomes a hurdle for them to achieve the required performance what they actually want to.Some positions in an organization demand more of emotional intelligence as they would be handling more people, for example if we take post of a supervisor who is also termed to be a special group employee, this position is very crucial as he/she acts as a mediator between the employees at the bottom level and employees at the top level. They have to communicate the work effectively and also have to get it done through employees who are under them. For an organization, if supervisors are performing well in turn the whole organization leads to a track of profits. Job performance of these employees would affect the whole organization, and hence, if supervisors are having high emotional intelligence they would be