The Affiliation of Emotional Intelligence with Performance of Accounting Lecturers

Abstract

The development of human civilization to the information age and globalization shows how big the changes are due to business people to live their lives better. Everyone plays a vital role in helping a group, organization, or society to achieve its goals. People who have great talents or qualities are expected to become leaders, such as charisma, foresight, power of persuasion, and intensity. One's emotional management has an important role to make their existence recognized by the environment. The current phenomenon of emotional intelligence becomes a major topic in the work field because it contributes to workers. This study focuses on Lecturers of the Accounting Study Program of Private Universities in the Province of Bali. The sample in this study amounted to 182 people. This study aims to analyze the effect of emotional intelligence on the performance of lecturers in the accounting study program at private universities in Bali Province. The data collection method used is a questionnaire. The analysis includes an instrument test, classical assumption test, normality test, linear regression, hypothesis testing, and coefficient of determination test using simple regression analysis with SPSS 14.0 for Windows program. The results show that emotional intelligence positively affects the performance of lecturers in the Accounting Study Program.