Predicting leadership practices using emotional intelligence and
personality traits of the leaders with the moderating role of trust.
Name of Supervisor: Sohail Younus
Names of Authors: Ali Raza, Umar Ajmal, Faisal Latif
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Department of Business Administration University of Sargodha, Gujranwala Campus
Introduction & Literature Review
Leadership is the most vital management function in business management.
The education institutions of a kingdom are the most imperative source that
produces the effective leadership. There should be an appropriate procedure
in education system of the country especially in universities by which internal
abilities of the future leaders can be assessed so that education system can
shape particular leadership capabilities in the future leaders. Emotional
intelligence and personality are the most suitable predictor of future leadership
practices. Emotional intelligence is now a prevalent subject among leadership
scholars (Cavazotte, Moreno, & Hickmann, 2012;Gooty, Connelly, Griffith,
&Gupta, 2010; Harms & Credé, 2010a).
Personality discusses a pattern of comparatively unique and constant features
that give both consistency and individuality to a person's behavior (J. Feist &
G. Feist, 2009). Among the well-known hypotheses of identity is the Big Five
speculations of identity qualities that is vanquished by the exertion of Goldberg
(1990) and McCrae and Costa (1987, 1996). The purpose of this study is to
predict leadership practices using emotional intelligence and personality traits
of the leaders considering the moderating role of trust.
Methodology
In this research the following methodology was used:
1. Quantitative methodology was used.
2. Survey strategy (Questionnaire) was used for data collection.
3. Deductive research approach and research design were cross
sectional.
4. SPSS and AMOS were used for data analysis.
5. Major statistical tests that were applied are correlation, regression and
moderation.
Major Results
 EI is correlated with trust and Leadership with the values of
r=0.351 and r=0.561. Similarly personality is correlated with
trust and Leadership with the values of r=0.449 and r=0.564
respectively.
 EI has significant and positive influence on leadership as
(p<0.05) and these results supports to H1. Furthermore
SEM analysis demonstrate the positive estimates between
personality and leadership (p<0.05) and supported to H2.
Research Questions & Hypothesis
1. What is the impact of emotional intelligence on leadership?
2. Does trust moderates between the relationship of emotional intelligence
and leadership.
3. What is the relationship between personality and leadership?
4. To what extent trust moderates between the relationship of emotional
intelligence with leadership?
Hypothesis Development:
H1: There is a significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence
and leadership practices.
H2: There is a significant positive relationship exist between personality and
leadership practices.
H3: Trust significantly moderates the relation between emotional intelligence
and leadership.
H4: Trust significantly moderates the relation between personality and
leadership.
Proposed Model
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