Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Culture - Drivers of Employee Performance

The purpose of this paper is to present how different elements, like: leadership, emotional intelligence and organizational culture influence the performance of people and organizations, and, also, to answer the question “Can these factors be defined as drivers of employee performance?”. The main objective is to bring more clarity to the process of measure employee performance through a better understanding of emotional intelligence and organizational culture, along with the added value of these two concepts. A brief review of literature studies presenting results on this theme is caried out within the paper, in order to demonstrate the utility of the future research directions in the field. The paper reveals specific elements that should be part of the performance measurement at organizational level, in order to improve the actual approach.