Relationship between Educational Leaders’ Emotional Intelligence and their Leadership Effectiveness at Secondary Level

Abstract

Leaders have an effective role in the development of any institution. At secondary level the association among educational leaders’ Emotional Intelligence and their Leadership effectiveness is determination of this study. This study has correlational in nature. On the way to conduct research survey method was used. Sample selection is done by the Stratified sampling. In the sample of the study there are 294, including 42 educational leaders and 252 secondary schools’ teachers. With the help of two instruments named as ‘Emotional Intelligence Scale’ and ‘Leadership Effectiveness Scale’ data was composed. The data of educational leaders about their ‘Emotional Intelligence’ was collected through ‘Emotional Intelligence Scale’. The data from teachers about leadership effectiveness of their educational leader was collected by Leadership Effectiveness Scale. Both questionnaires comprised of 31 items. The data analysed by using statistical techniques ‘mean’, ‘standard deviation’, ‘one-sample T test’, and ‘Pearson product correlation coefficient’. Outcomes of the study shows that mean score of all factors of Emotional Intelligence Scale and Leadership Effectiveness Scale is high than the mean scale score=3. Relationship of all the factors of ‘Emotional Intelligence Scale’ and entirely factors of ‘Leadership Effectiveness Scale’ was positive.

Key Words: Educational Leaders, Emotional Intelligence (EI), Leadership