Emotional intelligence and servant leadership: A meta-analytic review |
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| Authors: | Chao Miao Ronald H Humphrey Shanshan Qian |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Management and Marketing, Franklin P. Perdue School of Business, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, USA;2. Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK;3. Department of Management, College of Business and Economics, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA |
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| Abstract: | Servant leadership is an effective leadership style that focuses on ethics and morality. Emotional intelligence (EI) is also associated with effective leadership and ethical behavior; thus, there has been a surge in studies that assessed the link between EI and servant leadership. Nevertheless, the empirical landscape of this relationship is mixed and fragmented. We undertook a meta-analysis to clarify this literature and found that (a) EI has a significant positive relationship with servant leadership (ρ̅̂ = .57); (b) the relationship between EI and servant leadership is stronger in studies having a lower percentage of well-educated subjects, in low power distance cultures, and in high institutional collectivism cultures; and (c) We were unable to find sufficient evidence to support moderating effects of the relationship between EI and servant leadership for gender (male-dominated and female-dominated studies), age (between young and old subjects), for self-report versus follower-report of servant leadership, and across different scales of servant leadership. |
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