Exploring the Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership Relation in Organizations through a Meta-Analysis Study in the Context of Turkey

Abstract

In cases where radical changes are needed, the existence of transformational leaders who will lead this change is important for corporations. The relationship of these leaders with the achievements of various types of intelligence has also been discussed by both academics and practitioners. In addition to intellectual intelligence, the relationship between social intelligence and emotional intelligence, one of its subsets, whose importance began to be grasped at the end of the 19th century, with business relations and leadership behaviors is also investigated within this framework. From this point of view, there are many studies in the academic literature examining the existence of the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership. Considering the large number of these studies, the importance of complying with the results of the study and examining them within the scope of a single analysis has been determined. With the meta-analysis study carried out in this direction, studies that reveal the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership variables with correlation analysis in the context of Turkey were examined. As a result of the study, it was concluded that there was a moderate statistically significant relationship between the variables. This study is important in that it represents a sample of 2102 people obtained as a result of 12 studies, and it has a very high level of generalizability and is a summary of studies examining the relationship between variables in the context of Turkey.