Investigating the effect of emotional intelligence dimensions on intelligent leadership in knowledge age organizations

Subject Areas : Education

asad hejazi ¹ , amirhoshang nazarpoori ²

1 - 1. Assistant Prof., Department of Educational Administration, Faculty of Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Associate Professor of Lorestan University

Received: 2019-10-28 Accepted : 2020-12-25 Published : 2020-11-21

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, Intelligent leadership, Knowledge Age organizations,

Abstract :

This study examines and analyzes how the components of emotional intelligence affect intelligent leadership. The research method was descriptive-correlation with emphasis on structural equations. The statistical population of this study consisted of teachers and faculty members of Farhangian University campuses (1100 people). The sample size was determined based on one rule in order to perform the confirmatory factor analysis, 330 people using the appropriate class method. Intelligent leadership data were generated by a researcher-made questionnaire and emotional intelligence data were collected by the Goleman Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for intelligent leadership components was 0.89 and for emotional intelligence dimensions was 0.825, which indicates the appropriate reliability of data collection tools and their formal and content validity was confirmed by experts and experts. Data analysis was performed using SPSS and LISREL software. The research findings show that "awareness of the situation" with a diagnostic coefficient of 0.892 is the most important dimension of smart leadership. The results also show that "social skills" and "self-awareness" with a detection factor of 0.43 and 0.33 are considered as the most important dimensions of emotional intelligence, which have a significant impact on smart leadership, respectively.

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