Emotional literacy power of managers to predict employee according to employee perceptions

In this study, sample is employees operating in the textile sector in Bursa and the predictive power of the emotional literacy levels of the managers according to the perceptions of the employees are examined and it is investigated whether the variables in question differ according to gender, age breakdown, and total working time. In this context, a total of 218 female and 182 male employees were reached from 4 different businesses operating in Bursa for quantitative research, and 403 of them participated in the study. From the participants; necessary data were collected with the help of the Demographic Information Form, the Emotional Literacy Scale (ELS), and the 25 item Job Performance Scale developed by Goodman and Svyantek. For the analysis of the obtained data, computer aided statistical data analysis program named IBM SPSS Statistics 26.0 was used. As a result of the statistical analyzes, it was concluded that the emotional literacy and job performance levels of the participants were high, and there were significant differences in the emotional literacy and job performance levels in terms of gender breakdown. It was understood that there was no statistically significant difference according to age breakdown. Considering the working hours, it was understood that there was a significant difference in emotional awareness levels, which is only one of the sub-dimensions, and that all sub-dimensions were in a positive and significant relationship with job performance in the relationship between self-regulation, emotional awareness and social skills, which are the sub-dimensions of emotional literacy, and job performance. The findings obtained from the research results were discussed in line with the literature. Key Words: Emotion, Manager, Emotional Literacy, Job Performance