Emotional intelligence in leadership (reaching the emotional intelligent leaders via using leadership features)

IV ABSTRACT Main purpose of this study is to measure the emotional intelligence level and examine the basic-sub dimensions of emotional intelligence of Turkish Land Forces officers. Thus the impacts of emotional intelligence level on military leaderhip behaviors is studied. The other purpose of the study is to investigate the relation between personel variables which are presupposed that have effects on emotional intelligence and its expansions which are claimed to include all necessary talents and skills for effective leadership behaviors. Taking precedence, theoretical approaches concerning various leadership behaviors are summarized. In direction of theoretical approaches, a leader who is aware of emotional intelligence talents, just defined to exhibit effective leadersip behaviors. In order to study the effects of emotional intelligence upon military leadership, EQ questionnaires, consists of 88 questions each, were applied to 225 subjects. It was resulted that 213 of them is worth to be evaluated. In the end of application, Turkish Land Forces officers while KHO graduates are tend to stay behind of officers who come from other sources under the subjects of total emotional intelligence level and intrapersonal functioning, interpersonel skills, general mood situation basic dimensions and emotional self-awareness, self-actualization, empathy, interpersonal relationships sub-dimensions. Military source variable has resulted to have no effect on adabtability and stress management basic dimensions and on components. There is a positive relation between rank variable and emotional intelligence. The fact that is as the rank increases, total emotional intelligence and intrapersonal functioning, interpersonel skills, adabtability, general mood basic dimensions and all sub- dimensions except self regard, independence are observed to increase as well. There is no relation between rank variable and stress management dimension, its sub-dimensions. Marital status, having a child or not, having a job of a spouse or not variables do not give rise to any change in total emotional intelligence, basic dimensions and expansions.