| dc.description.abstract | Emotional intelligence, internal and external motivation are prominently valued by corporations and organizations in the recent years, and they also play important roles in the workplace every field. Moreover, they are very popular and interesting issues of using emotional intelligence to enhance the internal, extrinsic motivation, and to affect the overall work performance. This study investigates the relationships between emotional intelligence, internal motivation, external motivation and job performance, and whether emotional intelligence and job performance are affected by the mediating effects of internal and extrinsic motivation. We apply the convenience sampling to progress the questionnaire survey aimed at human resources professionals. The results are obtained as follows. First, the higher emotional intelligence ability from an employee, the more encourages internal motivation and external motivation himself. Second, the better intrinsic motivation and job performance increase the performance extrinsic motivation. Third, emotional intelligence and job performance are highly correlated. Finally, the intrinsic motivation plays a partly mediating role among emotional intelligence and extrinsic motivation plays a partly mediating role among emotional intelligence and job performance. Conclusions suggest us to enrich our emotional intelligence and intrinsic motivation, and extrinsic motivation. Implications are discussed and issues for further study indicated.
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