Leader emotional intelligence and subordinate job satisfaction:a meta analysis of main, mediator, and moderator effects
Abstract Based on a meta analysis, leaders' emotional intelligence (EI) positively relates to subordinates' job satisfaction r 0.308) All three EI streams (ability, self report, mixed) exhibit significant incremental validity and relative importance (RW) in the presence of personality and cognitive ability in predicting subordinates' job satisfaction (ability EI: DR2 0.002, RW% 3.5% self report EI: DR2 0.021, RW% 25.3% mixed EI: DR2 0.085, RW% 49.9% Leaders' EI demonstrates significant incremental validity and RW in the presence of subordinates' EI in predicting subordinates' job satisfaction (leaders' EI: DR2 0.054, RW% 48.0% Subordinates' EI positively relates to leaders' EI and mediates the relationship between leaders' EI and subordinates' job satisfaction. Moderator analyses indicate that (1) ability EI has a lower association with subordinates' job satisfaction than self report EI and mixed EI; and (2) leaders' EI more positively relates to subordinates' job satisfaction in low in group collectivistic or low humane oriented cultures.