Emotional intelligence is increasingly recognized as a key leadership competency and an essential component of behavioral aspect of managing organizations. Research show that managers’ ability to recognize and control their emotions leads to increase in employees’ contribution to organization, commitment, productivity, and customers’ satisfaction. Thus, This research primarily aims to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational and transactional leadership styles. To collect data, a questionnaire was distributed among high school teachers and Vizinger’s and Burk’s measures were used to analyze data. The results did not show a meaningful relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership styles.

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