LA INTELIGENCIA EMOCIONAL Y SU INFLUENCIA EN EL DESEMPEÑO LABORAL DE LOS DOCENTES DENTRO DE UN CONTEXTO EDUCATIVO.

Abstract

Emotional intelligence and influence in the workplace is very interested in the field of business, however, within an educational context there is limited research proposals. This study aims to demonstrate the existence of emotional intelligence association with teacher performance. The sample of the study included a hundred of teachers. To do this, the teachers were evaluates the test by TMMS-24 and teacher job performance evaluation was evaluated with the instrument officially used by the Ministry of Education which was applied on teachers and school authorities. The statistical association has been made with the Mann Whitney U test with a significance level of 0.05. The results show significant association of emotional intelligence and job performance in teaching corresponding to pedagogical and didactic skills within a private educational unit of the city of Cuenca.