The State of Emotional Intelligence of Principals in Government Primary School in Bole Sub City
No Thumbnail Available
Files
Date
2020
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
AAU
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the state of emotional intelligence of principal in
government primary schools in Bole sub city. This study measured the emotional intelligence of
principals using the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal tool. A descriptive survey research design
was used to achieve the objectives of the study. The research participants were 31 principals and
121 teachers who work in government primary schools in Bole sub city. For the purpose of this
study standardized questionnaires were used. To measure the emotional intelligence of the
primary school principals the researcher used The Emotional Intelligence Self-Appraisal tool
was used: which measures the following five categories of emotional intelligence: (1) self–
awareness, (2) self–management, (3) social awareness, (4) relationship management, and (5)
overall emotional intelligence. The data analysis has been done using different statistical
techniques like, mean, standard deviation and IBM SPSS version 21. The results of this research
indicated that emotional intelligence has a positive effect on principals’ leadership performance.
This supports the body of research that emotional intelligence has a positive effect on leadership
performance. In addition there was a difference score between primary school principals and
teachers rating. When age and years of experience compared to emotional intelligence it does
not have a significant effect on leadership performance. Thus Implementation of EI in any
organization by a leader to be effective and efficient plays a vital role to leadership skill.
Therefore school principals need to work on their emotional intelligence considering the effect
that their EI skill has an impact on their educational leadership skill and successes in their
working environment