A Moderation by Emotional Intelligence on Perceived Leadership Effectiveness and Workplace Performance Outcomes

Abstract

The research was conducted for inspecting the bond among Perceived Leadership and Employee Workplace Outcomes as well as the moderating role of Emotional Intelligence on the connection between perceived leadership and Employee Workplace Outcomes. The survey was conducted through 260 employees of high schools of Quetta, Pakistan, perceiving their managers as leaders, including teaching and non-teaching staff. The results of 232 employees were analyzed statistically by SPSS (v. 25.0), Add-on Process by Andrew Hayes, and AMOS 24. Study findings showed that acting strategies of perceived leadership relate positively to employees’ workplace outcomes, which increases or decreases with increased or decreased relationship between them. The performance results show significant moderating effects of emotional intelligence, i.e., increases employee workplace performance by upgrading the relationship between leaders and employees. These findings contribute to the literature on perceived leadership and the impact of intelligence level of employees, which may promote the education quality in high schools by improving intelligence level and offering some directions to HR practitioners for some possibly advantageous exercises and recruitment procedures and promoting human empowerment. This study was focused on high schools only; future studies may be conducted on other sectors of the education department and remote areas other than cities.