Differences of emotional intelligence between men and women and its impact on team leadership and effectiveness

• Autor(a) principal: Mahjoub, Nadia
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/21012
• topic: Emotional Iintelligence; Team effectiveness; Team processes; Team leadership; Gender; Inteligência emocional; Eficácia de uma equipa; Processos de uma equipa; Liderança de uma equipa; Género; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

The objective of this study is to explore the leader’s Emotional Intelligence (Goleman, 2004) influence team leadership (Morgeson et al., 2010) in order to achieve better Team Effectiveness (Kozlowski & Bell, 2003). The relationship between these three variables has not been identified in the past, which is the reason this study has been conducted. A survey has been created based on validated scales and was distributed to teams. After an extensive literature review, four hypotheses about these relationships have been created and were all supported after the statistical analysis. This study confirms the link between Emotional Intelligence, Leadership and Team Effectiveness. Our findings show that Emotional Intelligence leads to better Team Effectiveness through Leadership Support the Social Climate function. It also shows a higher level of Emotional Intelligence in Women Leaders compared to Men Leaders. Taking into consideration these results, companies should start paying more attention to Emotional Intelligence values of the candidates during the hiring and promotion processes, in order to achieve higher overall organizational succes.