Emotional Intelligence and Leadership Styles

This assignment analyzes the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) as a crucial factor in effective leadership. It delves into Daniel Goleman's six leadership styles, highlighting how each style can be influenced by EI. The assignment emphasizes the importance of adaptable leadership and the need for leaders to recognize their strengths and weaknesses in relation to EI. It explores how EI contributes to positive business outcomes and the value it holds in today's workplace.

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Leadership, Innovation and Change
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
1) What is the article about? What does it tell us about the particular issue?.................................3
2) What concepts from this unit does the article demonstrate?.......................................................5
3) What key theories does the article draw upon?...........................................................................7
4) What are some of the underlying assumptions, values, and ideologies found in the article?...10
5) What is the article's argument? Is the argument effective?.......................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14

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Article name: Leadership That Gets Results
Journal name: Harvard Business Review
Author: Daniel Goleman
Published year: 2000 (March-April edition)
Introduction
In this study, Daniel Goleman’s article Leadership That Getting Results has been chosen
for review. This article was published in Harvard’s Business Review journal in 2000 in March-
April edition. In this article, Goleman’s talked about the leaders’ job that can ensure the results.
Effective leadership styles help to handle the organisations and people at the workplace. Team
leaders provide advice based on the experience, instinct and interference, but they do not provide
the advice on quantitative data. Goleman did research on more than 3,000 executives and he
explored in his research that precise and right leadership behaviour can facilitate the positive
results within the organisation. In this study, Goleman’s article will be reviewed based on a few
questions that are given. Article’s topic, issue, concept and assumptions will be discussed
thoroughly. Moreover, the argument and ideologies of the article will be explained in this study.
Finally, a comprehensive conclusion will be given at the end of this study.

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1) What is the article about? What does it tell us about the particular issue?
Goleman in his article talked about different leadership styles and he explained that
leadership behaviour can give significant results in the workplace, Goleman outlines six types of
different leadership styles and he argued that each leadership style has a significant and distinct
effect on the workplace. Different leadership styles can pose effect on the organisation, on its
team, financial performance and employees also. The article talks about the six leadership styles
and each one of them gas various components of emotional intelligence. Goleman described six
leadership styles by name and he briefly resonates the ideas of each leadership style with
examples. At first, he talked about coercive leaders and they mostly demand immediate
compliance. Authoritative leaders accelerate employees towards a set vision. In addition,
affiliative leaders most of the time create emotional bonds with the employees and make
harmony. Democratic leaders always take a decision through the participation of the employees.
Additionally, pacesetting leaders put the employees in self-direction and they strive for
excellence since the beginning (Lussier & Achua 2015, p.45). However, coaching leaders
improve the quality of the employees for the future. Most importantly, Goleman stated that the
leaders can take more than two or three leadership styles in order to get the best results as one
leadership style is not reliable for all situations. Goleman suggested business situations in which
the styles of leadership can be best suited. Goleman also suggested switching the leadership in
order to produce results and switching the leadership can be defined as science. Emotional
intelligence can be defined as the ability to recognise and manage the emotions of own and the
people who are surrounding. However, the emotional intelligence has four elements; self-
awareness, self-management, social skills and social awareness.

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Goleman pointed out that there are two ways of thinking about people's conundrum in the
organisation and employees do it repeatedly with the same worries. In the workplace, people's
lack of motivation is the recipe for the depression. Renko et al. (2015, p.56), supported this by
saying productive reflection cannot be seen in the workplace that can solve the issues. Leaders
often take the upper hand in taking the decision without taking consent of team members’
emotions. Team leaders have been facing the issues of what they know and what they need to
know. Daniel Goleman pointed out about the focused leader as these leaders can help coming up
with potentially positive solutions. Leaders sometimes get hesitates to solve the team issues and
productive reflection of the psychotherapy of the team leaders remain unsolved. This mind
meandering happens mostly in creative moments and team leaders need to solve these issues.
Reference List
Lussier, R.N. & Achua, C.F., 2015. Leadership: Theory, application, & skill development.
London: Nelson Education.
Renko, M., El Tarabishy, A., Carsrud, A.L. & Brännback, M., 2015. Understanding and
measuring entrepreneurial leadership style. Journal of Small Business Management, 53(1),
pp.54-74.

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2) What concepts from this unit does the article demonstrate?
Goleman talked about six types of leadership and Goleman suggested the flexible
leadership. Each type of leadership can bring the emotional intelligence in the workplace. As
stated by Johnston and Marshall (2016, p.34), leadership is important in the workplace and its
theoretical perspectives, as well as practical implication both, are important. Leadership has three
perspectives, leadership is a process or relationship between employees and leaders, leadership is
a combination of characteristics and leadership is the behaviour of the employees. Leadership
skills are significant as it is related to the influence of the groups. Nahavandi (2016, p.65),
supported that by saying leadership is a complex process and it is related to the realisation of
goals of the team members. In addition, leaders set some goals for the team members and team
members have to achieve these goals. Most importantly, the objectives of the team leaders must
in line with the organisational objectives. In this article of Goleman, he highlighted the six types
of leadership styles and molecular view of the researchers brought the view that leadership has
linked with the emotional intelligence. Specific behaviours of the employees on workplace
climate, manage change in the workplace, handling the crises are related to the emotional
intelligence capabilities. Goleman segregated the six different leadership styles in some factors
that can impact on the climate in the workplace, these factors are flexibility, responsibility,
standards, rewards, clarity and commitment.
In the theoretical perspectives of the leadership can be seen through the trait theory. This
theory talks about the qualities of the leaders that they were born with these. Leaders can be born
with some inherited qualities and their cognitive abilities recommendable. Sometimes, the
personality of the leaders is one of the most important factors and three most important

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leadership traits are intelligence, drive and sociability (Pawar 2014, p.13). Goleman added one
more quality of emotional intelligence as leaders have the ability to understand the emotions of
the team members. If the team leaders can recognise the emotional issues of the team leaders, it
can impact on the work performance and relationship between employees and team leaders.
Goleman also pointed out that self-control is the ability to control the disruptive emotions and
self-management is also related to the trustworthiness, consciousness and initiative to
achievement orientation. According to Northouse (2015, p.56), the situational theory is related to
the different situations in the workplace is needed to require different leadership styles. It is
related to the adaptation and adjustment of the styles of leadership. The primary objective of the
shifting of the leadership is determined through the assessment of the commitment towards
organisational objectives. The team leaders are needed to be competent enough to the take the
situational leadership with supportive leadership styles. However, Goleman's emotional
intelligence can be applied in contingency theory as the effectiveness of leadership concept is
contingent. Leaders’ style must match the desired situation and situational theory is about
adapting the situation, whereas, contingency theory is about leaders qualities and styles upon a
risky situation.
Reference List
Johnston, M.W. & Marshall, G.W., 2016. Sales force management: Leadership, innovation,
technology. Abingdon: Routledge.
Nahavandi, A., 2016. The Art and Science of Leadership -Global Edition. Sydney: Pearson.
Northouse, P.G., 2015. Leadership: Theory and practice. London: Sage publications.

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Pawar, D., 2014. Styles of Leadership. International Journal of Research in all Subjects in Multi
Languages, 2(7), pp.12-14.
3) What key theories does the article draw upon?
Goleman mainly talked about six different kinds of leadership and his concept of
emotional intelligence.
Coercive style: This style of leadership is about pushing the team members through
change and the changes are important for the removing the barriers. In coercive style, the
employees have their issues as employees lose their motivation and it reduces the innovation.
Coercive leadership can be used in extreme situation and it can reduce the responsibility of the
employees.
Authoritarian style: This type of leadership gives clear vision and it makes able about
communication. As opined by Komives and Wagner (2016, p.34), authoritarian leadership
articulates about key performance indicator and team leaders have confidence for their
employees. Authoritative leaders do not deal well in case of poor performances of the team
members, however, in general condition, this style is most effective. With the example of Tom,
Goleman made readers understand the clear vision and vibrant enthusiasm of authoritative
leadership.
Affiliative style: This type of leadership concept is helpful in the building of the new
team and it helps in restoring the trustworthiness among the team members. The leaders are
comfortable in sharing the experiences and team members listen actively. Affiliative leadership
concept can share the emotional intelligence and it can be helpful in avoiding the conflict

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(McCleskey 2014, p.77). Goleman posed an example of Joe Torre as an example of an
Affiliative leader as he used the victory celebration in order to praise the players.
Democratic styles: When an organisation provides extra importance in stakeholders,
democratic leadership style is important in this scenario. As stated by Siegling et al. (2014, p.68),
Democratic leaders face one challenge as they need to be authentic. Democratic leaders take a
decision after discussing with the people. Most importantly, these types of leaders have
facilitation in controlling the participatory process.
Pacesetting style: This style of leadership is natural among the managers who just got
promotion as they have been performing really well. This style of leadership works when the
employees are motivated and high-performance of the team members have a direction to work.
In the workplace, pacesetting workplace, the team members can shape the motivation of the
employees and it is helpful in accomplish the great works.
Coaching style: This style of leadership provides performance feedback to the leaders
and it helps the employees to be motivated. This leadership requires skills and employees get
performance appraisal. The coaching style of leadership can be aligned with the employees’
performance and it can impact hugely on business.
The climate within a business team has an impact on the performance of the employees.
However, Goleman made align with each style of leadership with the climate. Climate impacts
positively on authoritative, affiliative, democratic and coaching styles of leadership, however,
pacesetting and coercive style of leadership have a negative impact.
Emotional Intelligence

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During the time of the 1990s, the traditional concept of intelligence is about the cognitive
aspect and problem-solving skills in the workplace. However, in 2000, Daniel Goleman
introduced the emotional intelligence through competencies and skills that can drive the
leadership performance. Team leaders have to know about the strengths, weaknesses, values and
goals of the emotions that can be used through understanding the feelings. In this respect, the
team leaders can use self-regulation that can direct the disruptive emotions and it can be helpful
in changing circumstances. In addition, social skill is about managing the people's emotions that
can move people to have desired actions. Additionally, empathy towards the employees is
recognised to consider the employees’ feelings in making the decisions (Ramchunder & Martins
2014, p.10). Motivation is another important factor in the workplace that can be achieved
through helping the employees in their emotions. According to Goleman, emotional
competencies cannot be explained as innate talents; however, this is the learned capabilities of
the team leaders. This emotional intelligence can be helpful in developing the outstanding
performance of the team members.
Reference List
Komives, S.R. & Wagner, W.E., 2016. Leadership for a better world: Understanding the social
change model of leadership development. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
McCleskey, J., 2014. Emotional intelligence and leadership: A review of the progress,
controversy, and criticism. International Journal of Organizational Analysis, 22(1), pp.76-93.
Ramchunder, Y. & Martins, N., 2014. The role of self-efficacy, emotional intelligence and
leadership style as attributes of leadership effectiveness. SA Journal of Industrial
Psychology, 40(1), pp.01-11.

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Siegling, A.B., Nielsen, C. & Petrides, K.V., 2014. Trait emotional intelligence and leadership in
a European multinational company. Personality and Individual Differences, 65, pp.65-68.

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4) What are some of the underlying assumptions, values, and ideologies found in the
article?
Goleman’s underlying assumptions in leadership are based on three elements:
First, Goleman put stress on six different types of leadership and he emphasised that six
types of leadership have different characteristics. Moreover, leaders have to switch their
leadership styles based on the business situation. Goleman argued that good leaders are effective
in business as they create resonance.
Second, Goleman spoke about the climate that can impact on the leadership styles.
Goleman investigated six different types of leadership and they get impacted by the six drivers of
climate. Workplace climate that Goleman took is flexibility, responsibility, rewards, standards,
clarity and commitment.
Third, Leadership is not a science and it could be improved through business practices.
For improvement of leadership, leaders can use more than one leadership style in their
workplace. Emotional intelligence can bring out the best leadership qualities and it is comprised
with initiative and self-control (Ruiz 2015, p.60).
In this article, the values of emotional intelligence have been discussed in light of
different leadership styles. Moreover, this article has discussed the value of switching the
leadership styles according to business situations and not just to stick on one leadership. The
leadership style is seamlessly sensitive and they just need to adjust the leadership to have the best
result. This article poured the values of growing the emotional intelligence in the leadership and
the leaders just need to unlearn the old leadership styles to follow the new one.

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The ideologies of Goleman’s article exclusively are of emotional intelligence on
leadership. The behaviour of the leaders needs to be changed and they need to alter the
leadership styles and habits that should work for them. Leaders need to take the strategies of
communication, collaboration and capabilities (Sheppard et al. 2013, p.270). Goleman opined
that business situation has been changing and styles of leadership need to change in accordance
with these. This article illuminates the ideology of compassion, effective communication,
climate, emotions, self-awareness and authenticity in leadership. Most importantly, Goleman
suggested changing the leadership in environment wise to respond the situation not to be a
stumbling block.
Reference List
Ruiz, C.E., 2015. Leadership in Mexico: cultural factors affecting organisational
leadership. International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, 5(1), pp.55-67.
Sheppard, J.A., Sarros, J.C. & Santora, J.C., 2013. Twenty-first century leadership: international
imperatives. Management Decision, 51(2), pp.267-280.

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5) What is the article's argument? Is the argument effective?
Goleman introduced the concept of emotional intelligence and six different types of
leadership are told in this article. Goleman suggested that each type of leadership can facilitate
the emotional intelligence. Leaders who follow the democratic, authoritative, democratic and
coaching styles, they can make best business performance climate for the organisation. The main
argument of Goleman is to facilitate the concept of taking many styles in leading a team or an
organisation that suits the purpose. Leaders who are a master in more than one style of leadership
can effectively change business performance (Mittal & Sindhu 2012, p.50). Leaders need to
switch the leadership style based on the situation. However, leaders do not need to mechanically
change their leadership styles; however, they can keep a checklist. Moreover, it is needed that
growing the emotional intelligence tales commitment and practices. The emotional intelligence
of team leaders can grow with the 360-degree evolution of the situation and the needs of
intelligence can be diagnosed from multiple views.
Daniel Goleman and other psychologists argued on emotional intelligence in leadership
and without this, a leader must have an incisive mind, class training, supply of good ideas and
emotional qualities. Emotional intelligence comprises self-regulation, self-awareness, empathy,
social skills and motivations. However, the argument of Goleman proved that emotional
intelligence can result to measurable business results. Six types of leadership and climate of the
workplace can recognise the potential leaders that must connect to the performance of the
business. Emotional intelligence can be the success mantra for the leaders in moving into best
managerial position. According to Cooper and Sawaf (2015, p.23), lack of emotional intelligence
in leadership in any kind of leadership can pose to insensitivity, arrogance and rigidity in

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leadership. However, Acting out in anger for a leader can derail the career as a volatile team can
cause dysfunctions. Most importantly, the argument is effective in today's workplace when
emotional intelligence is accepted and considered valuable in a leadership position. In
recruitment and selection of employees, HR or management prefer leaders and employees who
are adaptable in changing work environment putting the capability of emotional intelligence.
Reference List
Cooper, R.K. & Sawaf, A., 2015. Executive EQ: Emotional intelligence in leadership and
organizations. New York: Penguin.
Mittal, E.V. & Sindhu, E., 2012. Emotional intelligence and leadership. Global Journal of
Management and Business Research, 12(16), pp.45-56.

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Conclusion
Emotional intelligence is factored with daily decisions that the leaders take in business
objectives, team leading, hiring and promoting the employees. In a business process, Goleman
discussed six types of leadership styles with examples and a higher degree of emotional
intelligence helps the leaders in taking the decisions in right way. Moreover, employees may
have the emotional intelligence that could be their determining factors in leadership potentials.
Leadership styles need to be switched in business situation wise and expanding the performance
can be helpful. Team members must be chosen in a way that can fulfil the lack within a team.
Leaders must recognise the competency they lack and increase the quotient accordingly.
Leadership is not a science and it is necessary to practice this to get the result. The leadership can
be understood as the elements of behavioural and psychological factors as business conditions
are changing and leadership needs to be changed accordingly.