Abstract
This paper presents the impact of leadership style practiced by managers on their subordinates’ job performance. Emotional Intelligence of the employees has been considered as a moderator to the leadership-performance relationship. Self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted from convenient sampled 100 young employees of telecom and banking sector. They were asked to respond about their perception regarding their manager’s leadership style, job performance and their perceived level of emotional intelligence. 77 out of 100 distributed questionnaires were received back completely filled that yield response rate of 77%. Current research concluded that the style of leadership exhibited by a manager is significantly associated with the subordinates’ job performance while emotional intelligence of employees has no moderating effect on this leadership- performance relationship
Highlights
Organizations have to deal and cope with a number of uncertainties and challenges in such dynamic environment of global competition
To check the impact of emotional intelligence on employees’ performance, it has been studied as a presumed moderator that can affect the leadership-performance relationship
Result suggests that the transformational style of leadership exhibited by a manager is significantly associated with the subordinates’ job performance
Summary
Organizations have to deal and cope with a number of uncertainties and challenges in such dynamic environment of global competition. There exist various leadership styles that a manager can follow but the focus of the present research is only on Transactional and Transformational style of leadership. Now-a-days, the criterion of recruitment is getting competing and diversified that’s why personality traits in predicting job performance in addition to traditional qualifications and expertise of the employees. Organizations are applying the personality criteria extensively while choosing among potential candidates for final selection. Among these personality traits, Emotional Intelligence (EI) is an important success predictor (Stubbs, 2005). Tehmina Fiaz Qazi, Muhammad Shafique, Rashid Ahmad to researchers, emotionally stable employees considered being more productive and their performance can be measured by looking at their emotional intelligence level (Goleman, 1998). To check the impact of emotional intelligence on employees’ performance, it has been studied as a presumed moderator that can affect the leadership-performance relationship
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