“Emotional intelligence”: What does it measure and does it matter for leadership?
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Intuitively, “emotional intelligence” (EI) may seem like necessary condition for productive leader-member relations or effective leadership, as many writers have suggested. I show that this link does not hold up to empirical scrutiny when using strong methodological tests. I reanalyze secondary data and show that both trait (EQi and WLEIS) and ability (MSCEIT) models of EI are linearly dependent on intelligence and/or personality (with multiple r’s ranging from .48 to .76 depending on the measure used). Also, controlling for personality and general intelligence I show that emotional intelligence either does not predict or negatively predicts leader-member relations (LMX). As concerns predictors of leadership, the concept of EI has to be either reformulated or abandoned as I have suggested on repeated occasions.
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