Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

WLEIS (Wong & Law Emotional Intelligence Scale) and the Leader Efficacy Questionnaire (LEQ) were used as instruments for comparing emotional intelligence and leader’s self-efficacy perception, Harper (2015). The study revealed that women possess higher levels of emotional intelligence, leader self-efficacy, leader self-regulation and self- emotional appraisal. The results suggested that gender may be a gauge for predicting higher levels of emotional intelligence and the individual levels of skill assessment and skill development can be done using the single instrument, which is an outcome of the study to measure emotional intelligence and leader’s self-efficacy.