Document Type
Dissertation
Major/Program
Psychology
First Advisor's Name
Chockalingam Viswesvaran
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Nathan Hiller
Third Advisor's Name
Victoria Pace
Fourth Advisor's Name
William Kurtines
Keywords
emotional intelligence, leadership, meta-analysis, transformational leadership, personality, intelligence
Date of Defense
6-25-2009
Abstract
The present study – employing psychometric meta-analysis of 92 independent studies with sample sizes ranging from 26 to 322 leaders – examined the relationship between EI and leadership effectiveness. Overall, the results supported a linkage between leader EI and effectiveness that was moderate in nature (ρ = .25). In addition, the positive manifold of the effect sizes presented in this study, ranging from .10 to .44, indicate that emotional intelligence has meaningful relations with myriad leadership outcomes including effectiveness, transformational leadership, LMX, follower job satisfaction, and others. Furthermore, this paper examined potential process mechanisms that may account for the EI-leadership effectiveness relationship and showed that both transformational leadership and LMX partially mediate this relationship. However, while the predictive validities of EI were moderate in nature, path analysis and hierarchical regression suggests that EI contributes less than or equal to 1% of explained variance in leadership effectiveness once personality and intelligence are accounted for.
Identifier
FI09120813
Recommended Citation
Whitman, Daniel S., "Emotional Intelligence and Leadership in Organization: A Meta-analytic Test of Process Mechanisms" (2009). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 113.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/113
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