Emotional Intelligence: Sine Qua Non of Leadership or Folderol?

By Frank Walter, Michael S. Cole, R. Humphrey. 2011

235 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology

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In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Shanshan Qian
2. Chao Miao
3. Y. Lee
4. P. Chelladurai
5. Robert L. Engle
6. Christopher Schlägel
7. M. V. van Engen
8. J. Pollack

In Social Psychology

1. Shanshan Qian
2. Chao Miao
3. R. Humphrey
4. J. Pollack
5. Richard Boyatzis
6. Y. Lee
7. P. Chelladurai
8. M. Gunkel

Citations in the corpus

• Are (male) leaders feminine enough? Gendered traits of identity as mediators of sex differences in leadership styles (2012, background): “, 2009; Locke, 2005), some studies have suggested that EI is related to effective leadership (Walter et al., 2011) and effectiveness of work teams (Yost and Tucker, 2000).”
• Emotional Intelligence and Employee Creativity: Moderating Role of Proactive Personality and Organizational Climate (2016, background): “According to Walter, Cole, and Humphrey (2011), relationship between EI and effectiveness may be indirect (e.g., through specific behaviors), and this indirect relation might hinge on yet another variable (e.g., individual or context characteristics).”
• A meta-analysis of emotional intelligence effects on job satisfaction mediated by job resources, and a test of moderators (2017, unknown): “…Boyatzis et al., 2011; Goleman, 1995; Mayer & Salovey, 1997; Miao, Humphrey, & Qian, 2016a, 2016b; O'Boyle, Humphrey, Pollack, Hawver, & Story, 2011; Petrides & Furnham, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006; Petrides, 2009a, 2009b; Petrides et al., 2016; Salovey & Mayer, 1990; Walter, Cole, & Humphrey, 2011).”
• Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Intelligence and Personality as Predictors of Sales Leadership Performance (2012, background): “Since g explains a considerable amount of variance in some studies of workplace performance and given its theoretical relationship to ESI, assessing the impact of g is important in establishing incremental predictive validity of ESI (Walter et al., 2011).”
• Culture's Influence on Emotional Intelligence: An Empirical Study of Nine Countries (2014, background): “…a wide range of important human resource management outcomes, including general performance, job performance, and team performance (Bell, 2007; Joseph and Newman, 2010; O'Boyle et al., 2011; Van Rooy and Viswesvaran, 2004) as well as leadership behavior (Harms and Credé, 2010; Walter et al., 2011).”
• Are the emotionally intelligent good citizens or counterproductive? A meta-analysis of emotional intelligence and its relationships with organizational citizenship behavior and counterproductive work behavior. (2017, methodology): “Reviews of the literature have concluded that EI is positively related to leadership emergence, the performance of effective leadership behaviors (such as transformational leadership), and overall leadership effectiveness (Walter et al., 2011).”
• Emotional intelligence, emotional labor, coach burnout, job satisfaction, and turnover intention in sport leadership (2018, methodology): “Emotional intelligence was assessed by Wong and Law’s (2002) questionnaire which asks respondents to assess their level of emotional intelligence (Walter et al., 2011).”
• Leader emotional intelligence and subordinate job satisfaction:a meta-analysis of main, mediator, and moderator effects (2016, unknown): “To address the common criticisms concerning the incremental validity of EI above and beyond the FFM and cognitive ability, we included them as study covariates to improve the methodological rigor of our study (Walter et al., 2011).”