A survey of the mediation role of emotional intelligence of managers in the impact of transformational leadership style on employees' contextual performance

Document Type : Articles

Authors

• Nastaran Gharehbaghi
• Fariborz Rahimnia

https://doi.org/10.22067/pmt.v5i10.34889

Abstract

Leaders failure in correct evaluation of feelings and emotions of employees, may act as a barrier in achieving organizational goals. Therefore it is important to pay attention to job and contextual performance arising from positive behaviors such as cooperation and effort of employees. Moreover, employees’ training is usually focused on recognition teaching, and less on emotional- social aspects. In addition, it is vital for school headmasters to be aware about the impact of transformational leadership's characteristics on behaviors such as cooperation and effort. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of managers' transformational leadership style on contextual performance of their employees through managers' emotional intelligence. In this study, 136 school headmasters and their assistants were used to answer emotional intelligence and contextual performance questionnaires and another statistical population consisted of 234 teachers were selected to answer transformational leadership style questionnaire. After testing hypotheses using PLS software, the path coefficients obtained at the level of 0.05 was determined to confirm the overall model. Consequently the impact of managers' transformational leadership style on their emotional intelligence was positive and significant. Moreover contextual performance was shown to be affected by managers' transformational leadership style and their emotional intelligence. In addition, the indirect impact of transformational leadership style of managers on contextual performance of employees through the emotional intelligence of managers was also significant.

Keywords

• Transformational leadership style
• Emotional intelligence
• Job performance
• Contextual performance
• Education system
• Schools

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