Do the Perceived Leadership Styles of Principals affect the Emotional Intelligence of Expatriate Teachers?

This research tries to examine the effect of the perceived leadership styles of principals on the emotional intelligence of expatriate teachers working in the private educational organizations in UAE. Three hundred teaching faculties working in fifteen schools, institutes and colleges constitute the study population. The perceived leadership styles of the principals are measured by Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire by Bass and Avolio (2004). Emotional intelligence of the teachers is measured by Emotional Intelligence Appraisal by Bradberry and Greaves (2001). Demographic questionnaire measured the personal information of the teaching faculties. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis are employed to analyze the data. The result indicated that individualized consideration factor of transformational leadership style of principals had significant positive influence over the emotional intelligence of teachers. Contingent rewards leadership of transactional leadership style showed positive predictive relationship whereas laissez faire leadership of principals showed significant but negative predictive relationship with emotional intelligence of expatriate teachers.