Organizational Emotional Intelligence Predicting Performance: Organizational Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Organizational Performance within the Real Estate Industry

This quantitative research study's focus was to determine if organizational emotional intelligence (OEI) was a valid predictor of organizational performance (OP) in the real estate industry. It built upon the organizational emotional intelligence research but with an organizational performance perspective. An organization's holistic capabilities as opposed to the individual's positional knowledge, skills, and abilities are the true strength of how a high performance company maintains their edge over their competitors. Bradberry and Greaves' Emotional Intelligence Appraisal (EIA), the researcher-designed Subjective Organizational Performance Assessment (SOPA) and SOPA-X, with Dubois and Rothwell's Developing the High Performance Workplace (DHPW) were utilized to assess Northern Virginia Real Estate organizations. The statistical analysis of the data (n = 210) explored the correlation between OEI and OP; between the OP assessment tools; and between OEI and years in the real estate industry, gender, age, and level of education. At the end of the statistical process, the researcher concluded OEI was a valid predictor to OP at a 0.05 significance level.