The influence of emotional intelligence on leadership styles among the kadazandusun community
Leadership is important in organizational studies because it is a critical factor in shaping organizational effectiveness and success. Previous studies have suggested that effective leaders possess high level of emotional intelligence; emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive inte...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.ums.edu.my/19292/ http://eprints.ums.edu.my/19292/1/The%20influence%20of%20emotional%20intelligence.pdf |
| Summary: | Leadership is important in organizational studies because it is a
critical factor in shaping organizational effectiveness and success.
Previous studies have suggested that effective leaders possess high
level of emotional intelligence; emotional intelligence is more
important than cognitive intelligence; it is a critical component of
leadership effectiveness; the higher a manager rises in the ranks,
the more important the emotional intelligence to his success; and it
is a critical performance determinant. Emotional intelligence is the
subset of social intelligence that refers to the ability of an individual
to perceive, to process, to understand, and to manage emotions in
self and others to guide one's thinking and actions. This study
attempts to investigate the influence of emotional intelligence on
leadership styles among Kadazandusun leaders, the biggest
community in the state of Sabah Malaysia. The main interest is to
examine the leadership style differences between individuals with
high, normal and low emotional intelligence. Model of study was
based on the proposition that emotional intelligence influences
decisions and actions, which in turn determine leadership styles.
Goleman's (2000) Hay/McBer Model of leadership, which comprises
six leadership styles, was employed in this study namely coercive,
authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and coaching
leadership style. The moderating effect of formal authority was also
tested in this study. A sample size of 139 Kadazandusun leaders
from the government servants and politicians categories participated
in this study. The results revealed that there is a positive linear
relationship between emotional intelligence and education: the
higher the number of years spent on formal education, the higher
the emotional intelligence of the respondents. This study also
discovered that the higher the emotional intelligence the higher
the tendency for the respondents to exhibit authoritative,
democratic, and coaching leadership styles. This study also found
that the higher the emotional intelligence, the higher the number
of leadership styles exhibited by the respondents. The
moderating effect of formal authority was not substantiated in
this study. However formal authority was found to have a direct
effect on the relationship between coercive, authoritative,
pacesetting and coaching leadership styles, and emotional
intelligence for normal EQ category. This finding indicates that the
higher the formal authority, the more the respondents to exhibit
coercive, authoritative, pacesetting and coaching leadership styles. |
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