Emotional intelligence and authentic leadership -

Abstract

Emotional intelligence has been identified as a crucial element for leadership. The relationship between these two concepts have been widely investigated in the literature. Among the types of leadership explored is authentic leadership. This paper examines this relationship between emotional intelligence and authentic leadership in the Lebanese workplace through a questionnaire administered to 120 Lebanese managers. The findings suggest that the self-awareness component of authentic leadership is explained by the self-emotional appraisal component and the use of emotions component of emotional intelligence. While the balanced processing component of authentic leadership is explained by other’s emotional appraisal component of emotional intelligence.