The influence of Emotional Intelligence and Adaptability on Lecturers’ Performance in Private Universities (Higher Private Education Institutions) in Timor-Leste

Nowadays, education continues rapidly change and develop. The development of education always become a competition with the related education competitors, especially in higher education. To achieve the better quality of education, lecturers or teachers in high education intitutions must be able to master of teaching materials, teaching methodology, and particularly ability of emotional intelligence (EI), also adaptability on teachers’ performance. This research conducted in 10 higher private education institutions in Timor-Leste. This study used survey in the questionnaire and the hypoteses were tested using Smart-PLS 3.0 tool. The result indicated that emotional intelligence has a positively significant impact on adaptability and it is shown in the t-statistic correlation value on working performances.   The result also indicated that EI and adaptability have a significant effect on lecturers’ performance the T-statistic (2,575; p value 0.010). This justified that the T-statistic value must be more than 1.96 and p value must be less than 0.05. Therefore, the result showed the positive significant as the T-Statistic value are more than 1.96 and the p value less than 0.05. Furthermore, the four hypotheses were supported. Therefore, the practical implication from this research contributed to the goverment of Timor-Leste particularly the ministry of higher education instituions to provide further attention for the development of human resources, building lecturers capabilites and prefessionalism in higher private education institutions in Timor-Leste. This study also contibuted to the education institutions especially for higher private education institutions to fully pay attentions to develop their lecturers’ capabilites in order to provide better services to university students in Timor-Leste