THE TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND OCCUPATIONAL STRESS: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

The relationship between occupational stress and transformational leadership is mainly influenced by some factors wherein some contribute positively while some contributes negatively. From positive limits, the emotional intelligence is most effective factor which contribute in connection between occupational stress and transformational leadership. The researcher main contribution is the careful selection of the research variable and results that were based upon opinion of respondents concerning research variables. Both secondary and primary data were used to conduct, study, where secondary data was collected from the related articles on variables and primary data, was collected through questionnaires adapted from the previous studies. Through different tools of statistics (correlation, regression & mediation), collected data was analyzed to obtain answers to research questions (hypotheses). Results are significant and provide suitable information about the research variables to add values to existing research database.