The research argues that employees’ emotional stability will enable workers of the organisation to achieve better performance. This study interrogated and affirms the nexus between emotional stability and employees’ performance, zeroing – in on self-awareness as the taxonomy for guaranteeing the ability for employees’ to meet the organisation expected requirement from time to time and establish the relationship existed between self-management and employees’ commitment. The research engaged a qualitative method with reliance on secondary data; the study also used the self-efficacy theory (ability to execute a particular behaviour pattern) as the framework for the textual analysis of apprehensions/themes floodlit the discussion, conclusion, and recommendations. Findings of this study revealed that employees’ performance is a product of emotional stability. The recommendations proffered are capable of addressing the holes and challenges.

Research has shown that individuals with greater emotional intelligence are better able to appraise, manage and regulate the emotions of others. Such abilities allow these individuals to judge if their emotions are linked to opportunities, and thus use these emotions in the process of decision making that enhances higher performance. Consequent upon this, there is substantial evidence documenting the effects of emotional intelligence on leadership and educational performance. However, there is much less research examining how emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial competence affects entrepreneurial performance. This study therefore employed the creation theory to investigate the mediating effect of entrepreneurial competence on the relationship between the dimensions of emotional intelligence (i.e., self emotional appraisal, others’ emotional appraisal, regulation of emotions and use of emotions) and entrepreneurial performance. The study adopted ex-post-facto, simple random sampling technique and questionnaire to generate data from selected respondents in the hospitality industry in Makurdi metropolis, Benue State, Nigeria. The data were analysed using multiple regression statistical method. It was found that entrepreneurial competence mediates the relationship between the dimensions of emotional intelligence and entrepreneurial performance. In view of this, enterprises’ owners should ensure that their managers and employees are emotionally intelligent and entrepreneurially competent through a well planned recruitment and selection process.

This study contends that emotional intelligence has repercussions on entrepreneurial performance. This investigation interrogates and affirms the link ascribing emotional intelligence to entrepreneurial performance. This investigation adopted the qualitative research method, with the use of secondary data sourced from extended and informed literature from the 1990s still date. The study applied the general theory of entrepreneurship and emotional intelligence theory as the context for textual investigation of disputes/foci that illuminated the discussion, conclusion and recommendations. Findings reveal that defective emotional intelligence has the consequence of a poor combination of competencies; the skills that bequeath on person/s the requisite ability to succeed in managing their own emotions and properly measure the emotional conditions of others and influence views towards the achievement of the organisational objectives. This is critical for better entrepreneurial performance and if not achieved inhibited entrepreneurial businesses. The recommended suggestions in this study are capable of addressing the gaps and problems identified.