ISSN 1913-0341 [Print] ISSN 1913-035X [Online] www.cscanada.net www.cscanada.org Management Science and Engineering Vol. 14, No. 1, 2020, pp. 34-43 DOI:10.3968/11682 34 Copyright © Canadian Research & Development Center of Sciences and Cultures Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Diversity Management in Nigeria Breweries in Oyo State, Nigeria D. I. Akintayo [a] ; O. A. Shadare [b] ; I. A. Onikoyi [c] ; T. S. Olaniyan [a] [a] Department of Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, Faculty of Management Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria. [b] Department of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, Faculty of Management Science, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria. [c] Department of Entrepreneur Development, Faculty of Management Sciences, Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun state, Nigeria. * Corresponding author. Received 28 April 2020; accepted 11 June 2020 Published online 26 June 2020 Abstract Cases of ethnic bias and other forms of discrimination still take places in organizations during hiring, promotion and other employer-employee relation practices. Hence, managements are faced with the big challenge of managing its diverse workforce and emotional intelligence of their employees. This study investigated the impact of emotional intelligence on diversity management in Nigeria Breweries Oyo State. A total of 100 staff in Nigeria Breweries Oyo State in which 55 (55.0%) were male while 45 (45.0%) were female. The study was a survey which employed Descriptive research design and questionnaire was used to obtain the relevant data. The collected data were analyzed using Pearson rho Correlation and Regression Analysis with the application of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 21.0. The results showed that that there is joint signifcant relationship between emotional intelligence on diversity management It was recommended that emotional intelligence concept would integrate the development programs and job-related training provided to employees to improve their skills, providing a foundation for practicable knowledge. Key words: Emotional intelligence; Diversity management; Gender diversity; Age diversity; Educational diversity; Ethnic diversity Akintayo, D. I., Shadare, O. A., Onikoyi, I. A., & Olaniyan, T. S. (2020). Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Diversity Management in Nigeria Breweries in Oyo State, Nigeria. Management Science and Engineering, 14 (1), 34-43. Available from: URL: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/ mse/article/view/11682 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/11682 1. INTRODUCTION Managing diversity for results in multinational organizations has attracted the attention of researchers in organizational behaviourists. Workforce diversity denotes employment of employees with different race, culture, language, educational background, gender and personalities to work as a group to achieve the common corpoeate goal. This requires adequate competency and cooperation among the workforce. It is pertinent to note that the equivalent employment opportunity and assenting action inniatives of International Labour Organization (ILO) as a chartered convention had regulated racial and gender discrimination among the workforce in multinational organizations across the globe. The fact still remain that diversity has its associated significant influence on organizational performance. Managing the workforce diversity therefore required managers’ competency, proper orientation and workplace experiences so the organization to beneft from the diversed workforce composition. Management of diversity naturally has been of some concern to organized history throughout the history of civilization. Most of the early contributions came from practitioners such as Taylor and Fayol. Taylor is the father of scientifc management and wrote his book in 1911 while Fayol developed the fourteen principles of administration (Koontz & Donnel, 2018). Management in antiquity shows the interpretation of early Egyptian papyri, extending as far back as 1300 B.C., that specifes the recognition of the importance of organization and management in the bureaucratic states of antiquity with