Mr. Najmuddin Rahmani and Dr. Kalimullah Khan
Volume 5 Issue 2 | Jun 2022
DOI: 10.31841/KJEMS.2022.116
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Abstract
Academic leaders have a very important role to play in higher educational institutions, and for the development of academic leaders, attention has to be paid to their emotional intelligence to ensure transformational leadership and effective decision-making in their institution. This is because, with the passage of time, the roles of academic leaders have also changed. In the present study, the focus is on the transformational leadership style of academic leaders as it is more prevalent in the higher education institutions in Kabul Afghanistan. This study analyzed the moderating role of Emotional intelligence (EI) of employees on the relationship between transformational leadership (TL) and organizational commitment (OC) in the private higher education institutions in Kabul. The population of the study is the employees of the academics and employees of the 7 private universities in Kabul from that 270 are sample size and the technique used is convenience sampling. The statistical result found that EI acts as a moderator on the relationship between transformational leadership and organizational commitment. This study provides leaders with a new insight to look at their employees ‘level of commitment to their organization. In addition, this study further helps in exploring the impact of employees’ emotional intelligence on the relationship between transformational leadership and different components of organizational commitment. Different aspects of these variables were tested, to provide a wider and more comprehensive understanding of the factors that affect organizational commitment in private higher education institutions in Kabul.