Mediational Role of Motivation in the Association between Emotional Intelligence and Leadership at Workplace
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 8
Abstract
Leaders with high emotional intelligence have the ability to understand themselves as well as others and to regulate behaviors in a given context. These abilities are a function of their motivation. Motivation is the process that accounts for an individual's intensity, direction and persistence of effort towards attaining a goal. Former researches indicate a strong association between emotional intelligence and leadership. The role of motivation in determining leadership has also been established. However, the present study proposes a model to investigate whether there is a path that goes through motivation in order to understand the association between emotional intelligence and leadership in the workspace. This exploratory study undertakes a convenient sample of 60 upper and middle management employees from private and public sectors. The tools used for data collection include Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire, Work Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Scale and Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale. Descriptive and inferential statistical measures would be used for data analysis. Hierarchical Multiple Regression would be used to investigate motivation as the moderating variable between the leadership and emotional intelligence.It can be concluded that extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and transformational and transactional leadership, respectively, are significant predictors of emotional intelligence. While transformational and laissez faire leadership were found to be significant predictors of intrinsic motivation, transformational leadership was found to be a significant predictor of extrinsic motivation. The results further indicated that only extrinsic motivation plays a significant mediational role in the association between emotional intelligence and transformational, transactional leadership at workplace.
Authors and Affiliations
Meghna Ganesh, Dr. Daisy Sharma
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- DOI 10.9790/0837-2308030716.
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