نقش هوش هیجانی بر رهبری تحول‌آفرین مدیران گروه‌های آموزشی دانشگاه فرهنگیان

Abstract

Introduction and Aim: Transformational leadership plays an effective role in improving organizational behaviors and creating a competitive advantage for the organization. As a result, this research was conducted with the aim of the role of emotional intelligence on transformational leadership of educational departments managers of Farhangian University.

Methodology: This research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive from type correlational in terms of implementation method. The population of the present research was the educational departments managers of Farhangian University campuses in Tehran and Alborz provinces, which all of them were selected as samples using census sampling method. The research tools included the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (Goleman, 2001) and Transformational Leadership Questionnaire (Bass and Avolio, 2000). The data of this study were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and regression in SPSS software.

Findings: The findings of the present study showed that the contribution of emotional intelligence in predicting transformational leadership was 51%, and the contribution of emotional intelligence components including self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management in predicting transformational leadership was 18, 24, 15, and 38%, respectively, in the educational departments managers of Farhangian University (P<0.01).

Conclusion: The results of this research showed that emotional intelligence played an effective role in predicting transformational leadership of educational departments managers of Farhangian University. Therefore, to improve transformational leadership can seek to improve emotional intelligence through training courses and workshops.