The effects of emotional intelligence in employees performance

The research aim is to identify the effect of emotional intelligence employee's performance in their working place. With this research we would like to prove that the success in working and in overall working performance is not depending only on professional knowledge and the level of IQ of employees and managers, but also very important impact is having the level of emotional intelligence. Based on research result from 265 respondents divided into 215 non-manager positions and 51 respondents with managers/director position from different private and public institutions we concluded that also in Macedonia the success of managing changes is depending from the level of emotional intelligence. There is significant correlation between the level of EQ and the index of managing changes.