Emotional Intelligence and its Relationship in Higher Education

This essay investigates the crucial role of emotional intelligence within administrative departments in higher education, focusing on its impact on leadership, organizational creativity, and employee performance. The research explores how emotional intelligence influences administrative behaviors and contributes to the success of academic institutions. The study employs a mixed-method approach, combining qualitative and quantitative data collection through interviews and questionnaires to analyze the relationship between emotional intelligence and administrative effectiveness. The essay also examines the importance of emotional intelligence skills such as embracing educational changes, persistence as well as self-motivation, and explores the development of a conceptual model linking emotional intelligence and administrative leadership. The findings highlight the significance of emotional intelligence for academic leaders and the need for institutions to adopt modern management tools to maximize administrative capabilities. The essay also provides an overview of the research methodology, including the research approach, data collection methods, and the use of thematic analysis to interpret qualitative data. The research aims to understand the impact of the emotional intelligence besides its relationship with administrative department in higher education.

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Emotional intelligence and its Relationship with Administrative department in higher
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Research Topic
Emotional intelligence and its Relationship with Administrative department in higher
education
Problem statement
The individuals with high level of emotional intelligence can build strong
interpersonal relationships and better equipped to lead the individuals effectively. The
emotional intelligence is a role to influence administration and academic leadership in higher
education. In today’s time, it is seen that the educational institutions have faced various
problems which are being addressed in the study. The educational institutions are being
adapted to make various changes as well as developments occurred on quickly basis. Al-
Tarawneh, Battah, and Al-Tarawneh (2018) mentioned that the efficiency of instructive
system focuses on competence of school management. It is due to the fact that the school
administration is controlling the educational processes. This study is based on analyzing
emotional intelligence in addition its relationship with the administrative department of
higher education.
Serrat (2017) suggested that a successful organization should able to adopt modern
management tools and procedures. It is to be done to extent the maximum level of the
administrative imagination. Adoption of old fashioned management method should obstruct
management from viewing its creativity. In regards to all this, the organization adopts
modern methods and tools like the emotional intelligence. It is also analyzing the
participation of the administrative department to raise effectiveness as well as the efficiency
of the performance of employees. Petride et al., (2016) mentioned that the leaders are not
identifying performance of the employees by replying on academic qualifications as well as

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mental abilities of people. It relies on emotional intelligence skills such as embracing of
educational changes, persistence as well as self-motivation.
Purpose statement
The purpose of this research study is to understand the impact of the emotional
intelligence besides its relationship with administrative department in higher education. There
is also analyzing of the emotional intelligence on attributes of the management in the
organizational department. The present study explores the relationship of the emotional
intelligence as well as administrative creativity. The academic leaders are having main role
with administrative domains. The individuals of the university are required to manage critical
situations through proper planning as well as controlling of the project work. They are
required to respond to various stakeholders in as well as outside of the institutions (Gilar-
Corbi et al., 2018). The individuals those are in the position of the academic leadership are
benefited from learning on the part of the emotional intelligence for organizational success.
The future study of this research work will be based on including development of the
conceptual model linked with the emotional intelligence as well as administrative leadership
work. The hypothesis are also developed as well as tested to see relationship of two variables
such as emotional intelligence as well as managerial conducts of the organisation. According
to Attride-Stirling (2001), in order to assess to the qualitative data, the thematic approach is
to be used. It is used in this study for a purpose to draw on the core features which are
collective methods in qualitative data analysis. This thematic analysis aims to explore an
understanding of the issue and the significance of the investigation idea. The main purpose of
this exploration study is to gather data based on the topic by performing a mixed research
approach.

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Research approach
The selected research approach of this research study is both qualitative as well as
quantitative, integrated to examine ways that they are being combined in the research
practice. This research design suggested that quantitative research is focused on questionnaire
design based on the selected topic with the cross sectional design tends to dominate (Temple
& Young, 2004). The qualitative research focuses on semi-structured interview by means of
the cross sectional design. Therefore, examination of this two research approaches provides
with mixed method. Guba and Lincoln (1994) mentioned that the qualitative data is
cooperative to record narrative method of data which can enhance details of emotional
intelligence used in the higher education. It helps to add theoretical concepts in a practical
way so that there is better understanding of the topic. By performing the qualitative study, a
focus group approach is performed to recognise the viewpoint of the emotional intelligence at
the executive level (Bryman, 2016). On the other hand, the quantitative data are focused on
including structured questionnaires provided to the employees of the organization those are at
the administrative department. Both of the research approaches are helpful to recognize the
level of the emotional intelligence in the business organization. The researchers have to deal
with the questions to involve the research participants in various ways. The researcher is
examined to acknowledge the importance of the language of various degrees and point of
view of various respondents from different cultural backgrounds (Krauss, 2015). It would
help the researcher to get a proper understanding of the influence of emotional intelligence in
handling the administrative behaviours of the organisation.

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