Correlation between EQ and measures of leadership style, effectiveness, and self-efficacy in the workplace

Abstract

Many of today's most successful companies recognise emotional intelligence as a key indicator of long-term professional success. Emotional intelligence relies in large part on one's ability to shift and change in response to new information and circumstances. The purpose of this research is to determine how secondary school teachers' emotional intelligence affects their sense of professional competence, leadership style, and classroom performance. Results demonstrated a favourable relationship between emotional intelligence and female instructors' sense of competence, leadership style, and students' achievement. The first step in cultivating educators with high emotional intelligence is for teacher preparation programmes to craft their curricula with this end in mind, with the intention of assisting educators in becoming more effective, with the inclusion of various strategies for improving leadership style, and with the comprehensive coverage of all necessary teaching skills.