Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government Vol. 28, No. 01, 2022 https://cibg.org.au/ P-ISSN: 2204-1990; E-ISSN: 1323-6903 DOI: 10.47750/cibg.2022.28.01.032 467 Does Emotional Intelligence Dwindle the Stress Due to Time Pressure and Work Overload? A Case Study of Nurses in Public Hospitals Dr. Imran Rafiq, Department of commerce & Management Sciences, University of Malakand, Pakistan Dr Sarah Azhar, Assistant Professor, University of Education Township Campus Lahore, Pakistan Dr. Najwa Mordhah, Assistant professor, Management Science department, Yanbu University College Royal commission/ Yanbu, KSA Dr. Jawad Hussain, Associate Professor, Department of Commerce and Management Sciences University of Malakand, Pakistan Dr Asma Parveen, Faculty of human development, Department of Psychology and counselling, Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia Abstract The objective behind this research paper was to observe the impact of emotional intelligence on stress which is triggered by time pressure and due to work overload. With no regard to public or private organization setup, time pressure and work overload are reported by employees in general. Nurses are face the issue on daily basis. Stressful conditions due to time pressure and workload often lead to many organizational concerns in terms of mental health, physical health, absentees‟ turnover , emotional burnout etc. emotional intelligence is considered a best-coping strategy and it is studied with many organizational variables which positively related to positive variable and inversely related negative variable. Time pressure and workload werestudied with emotional intelligence it was observed that emotional intelligence was inversely related to time pressure and work overload. For this purpose, SmartPLS 3.0 was used to find the path coefficients and R-square, the output shows that the path coefficient for work overload (-0.55) and for time pressure (-0.38), the R-square (0.31) and (0.14) for work overload and time pressure with significance P-value (0.000) (0.000) and T-statistic value (14.9) (8.5) respectively. Nurses of the three main hospitals of Peshawar was the observing unit. And data was collected through self- administrated questionnaires, a stratified and systematic random sample was used to obtain the sample size of 359 out of approximately 2000 nurses including the adjusting nursing schools which works under these hospitals setting. Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Work Stress, Time Pressure, Work Overload. 1. Introduction With no reference to a public or private organization when it comes to time pressure or work overload all the employees complain in general. Time pressure if it is because of so many tasks to be completed in little time or it‟s because unskilled worker that could not cope with the speed of the work. In simple words when the stress that a person feels because of time constraints is time pressure and the work burden is the condition when one feel is doing more the one person. As cited by (Ali et al., 2014). The number of tasks and assignments which employees are bound to perform during their duty time is referred to as workload. It is mostly observed when human resources shortages are observed in organizations. As cited