eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2327-6150 2015-07-02 3 8 956 958 10.12691/education-3-8-1 EDUCATION2015381 article Somayyeh Bahramian sommayeh_bahramian@yahoo.com 1 Seyyed Ali Siadat 2 Tayyebeh Sharifi 2 Educational Administration, Islamic Azad University, Shar-e-Kord Branch, Iran Islamic Azad University, Shar-e-Kord Branch, Iran The aim of this paper is to urvey the relationship of emotional intelligence (EI) and job performance (JP) of staffs working in Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari Province Gas Company (CMBPGC). Study population consisted of 147 staff working in CMBPGC all of which 147 persons were selected as study sample. Data were obtained via two staffs' job performance (Paterson, 1990) and EI (Farnhaeim, 2002) questionnaires having 15 items, and 30 ones respectively based on Likert Scale from completely disagree to completely agree. Findings, based on Pearson's Correlation Coefficient, showed that there would be a significantly positive relationship between emotional intelligence and staffs' job performance. Also, there would be a significantly positive relationship between staffs' self-managerial; self-motivation, social awareness, and management of relations with job performance. Some suggestions were finally raised to make job performance improve through increasing in emotional intelligence to managers. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/3/8/1/education-3-8-1.pdf emotional intelligence (EI) self-awareness self-managerial social awareness job performance