Employee Emotions on Employee Performance: The Role of Human Character

  • Pindo Asti Universitas STEKOM
  • Dewi Widyaningsih Universitas STEKOM
  • Agus Priyadi Universitas STEKOM

Abstract

This study strives to enhance employee performance by bridging the mediating role of the human character of the Emotional Employee. Employee emotional changes can be boosted by potential human character, which would have the ability to strengthen employee performance. Data has been collected from 227 employees across the profession, and this has been analyzed using structural equation modeling SEM-PLS. The findings of the SEM show that emotional employee have a positive direct effect on the human character. The data results using this quantitative method showed that employees' emotions had a direct positive impact on human character. Emotional wealth has a positive effect on employee performance. The human character holds proven to potentially bridge the inconsistency of employee emotional changes towards optimizing employee performance. From a methodological standpoint, the role of "static" human characters is paired with symmetrical and asymmetric statistical instruments to better comprehend contingencies and interactions in this study. This approach adds to the literature by examining how individual characters must be awakened through employees' emotions for them to perform well.

Keywords: Emotional Employee, Human Character and Employee Performance;

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Published
2022-06-01
How to Cite
Asti, P., Widyaningsih, D., & Priyadi, A. (2022). Employee Emotions on Employee Performance: The Role of Human Character. Jesya (Jurnal Ekonomi Dan Ekonomi Syariah), 5(2), 2063-2076. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.36778/jesya.v5i2.787

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