12 Emotional Intelligence and Idealized Influence towards Performance Moderated by Gender Gopalan Raman Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar, Malaysia International Journal of Commerce & Business Studies Volume 3, Issue 4, October-December, 2015, pp. 12-14 ISSN Online: 2347-2847, Print: 2347-8276, DOA: 29102015 © IASTER 2015, www.iaster.com ABSTRACT This study is intended to examine the individual influence approach and genders emotional intelligence abilities towards organization performance. In addition this study will examine the relationship between genders emotional intelligence and transformational leadership. Keywords: Individual influence, Emotional Intelligence, Performance, Genders INTRODUCTION No matter what career, position that posed, industry the organization focuses on, professional or not, the ultimate desire outcome is to achieve high performance. Researchers have aggressively examined the fact of how Emotional Intelligence helps to attain desire outcome or performance. Practitioners as well as researchers had given rise to developing EI and organizational learning capabilities with the intention of improve performance in response to increasing turbulence in the business environment. Individual are more likely to negotiate or deal with those who able to regulate well their emotion and show optimist mood. Originally, Emotional Intelligence (EI) is defined by Salovey and Mayer (1990), as the intellectual processes in recognizing, using, understanding, and managing of individual's own and others' emotional status and capability to use those feelings to motivate, plan, and attain the individual and organizational performance. They further define EI as a process discriminates among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions. As a result, leaders with high EI talented to maintain strong relation with others as well as recognized by bottom line workers. Precisely, serious attention should be given to EI since it deems to be a vital issue that determines the effectiveness of teamwork and group process. The members in a team work which are high levels in EI will able to interact more closely and cooperate more intimately in the group works.EI contributes significantly to the team success. When the team progress carries out effectively and smoothly, this will link to the excellent performance of team. Erkutlu & Chafra (2012) added that EI within the leaders would possess high levels of EI are likely to recognize followers’ needs, take active interest in them and respond to changes in their emotional states. As such we can conclude that EI and leaders are the abilities of speech and listening that enable a person to distinguish the types of emotions and evaluate their own and others. EI is a set of abilities that provide an avenue of improvement in the relationship between the principal and agent. Thus, EIis a creation of the amount of interaction between the coherent and emotional centers of the brain by referring to Kavousy, Ardahaey, Fateme and Chivaei (2007) study. An emotional competence is “a learned capability based on emotional intelligence that results in outstanding performance at work” (Goleman, 1998b).In view of this it is vital for top management to understand the reasons why