6th Student Research Symposium - 2019
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Item The Impact of Leaders’ Emotional Intelligence on Transformational Leadership: A Study in an Apparel Sector Company in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2019) Ranasinghe, K.S.U.,; Silva, H.M.S.V.The main purpose of this study was to assess the impact of emotional intelligence on transformational leadership of executives in an apparel sector company in Gampaha district. There is a limited number of researches done on testing the relationship between these two variables and no research has been done on investigating the impact of emotional intelligence on transformational leadership of executives considering apparel sector in Sri Lanka. This study was a quantitative and cross-sectional study. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire. Simple random sampling technique was applied to select the sample, and the final sample consisted of 70 executives in an apparel sector company in Gampaha district. The findings revealed that there is a significant positive impact of emotional intelligence on transformational leadership of executive employees in an apparel sector company in Gampaha district. According to the regression analysis, 36% variation in transformational leadership is explained by emotional intelligence alone. According to the output of dimensional analysis, only use of emotion (p = 0.00) is significant (p < 0.05) dimensions in emotional intelligence but Self-Emotion Appraisal (p=.276), Others Emotion Appraisal (p=.365) and Regulation of Emotion (p=.27) are insignificant (p > 0.05) dimensions in emotional intelligence of executive level employees in selected context. Thus, this study can propose that emotional intelligence as a powerful determinant for selecting potential employees for organizations and emotional intelligence programme should be developed as an intervention technique to ensure the transformational leadership in this sector.Item The Effect of Emotional Intelligence on the Effectiveness of Transformational Leadership(Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2019) Hettisingha, H.M.C.W.,; Janadari, M.P.N.Nowadays organizations have realized that technical skills and intelligence quotient alone cannot predict an individual's performance or success. The literature suggested that emotional intelligence plays a vital role in the success of the leadership effectiveness of managers in the workplace. Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence on transformational leadership effectiveness of line supervisors in the apparel sector organization in Sri Lanka. Based on the literature a conceptual model was developed. The study adopted already validated research instruments. The model was empirically tested by collecting data from the line supervisors in ABC Company. A total of 80 line supervisors were selected for the study using the random sampling technique. Regression and correlation analysis was performed using SPSS version 23.0 to test the research hypothesis of this study. This investigation explored the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership practices. This study supports the position that emotional stability and emotional intelligence are important factors for organizational transformational leadership. According to the findings of the study, there was a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership effectiveness and emotional intelligence had a strong positive impact on transformational leadership effectiveness.