Emotional intelligence and self-leadership among employees in zakat institutions in Malaysia: The moderating role of religiosity / Anis Syamila Abdul Halim

Anis Syamila , Abdul Halim (2024) Emotional intelligence and self-leadership among employees in zakat institutions in Malaysia: The moderating role of religiosity / Anis Syamila Abdul Halim. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaya.

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Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-leadership with religiosity as moderator among employees in Zakat institutions in Malaysia. The objective of this research is to identify the level of emotional intelligence among the employees as well as their self-leadership principles. This research uses questionnaires as the instrument for data collection and had received 208 responses for data analysis process. This research used Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 28.01 as the data analysis tool. The research findings demonstrates that the Zakat employees possess a high level of emotional intelligence which 100% of manager and assistant manager have high emotional intelligence. Furthermore, the analysis shows that the Zakat employees possess a high self-leadership in dimension of behaviour-focused strategies. The data shows that 100% of the manager and assistant manager have high self-leadership. From Pearson Correlation, the result shows there are strong correlation (0.766) for association between emotional intelligence and self-leadership. The result of Pearson Correlation to determine the association between emotional intelligence and three dimensions of self-leadership shows that the highest correlation is emotional intelligence and natural reward strategies of self-leadership (0.733) and moderate correlation between emotional intelligence and behaviour-focused strategies of self-leadership (0.685) as well as emotional intelligence and cognitive thought pattern strategies (0.587). Hierarchical Multiple Regression analysis shows that the relationship of emotional intelligence to self-leadership is high (0 .766), and with religiosity as moderator, it has no significance because the value Beta (β=-0.36, p<0.01) is negative and the value for ΔR=0.589. Since the relationship between emotional intelligence and self-leadership have positive significance, hence its impact should be studied and adapted in the organisational culture to maintain a high emotional intelligence and self-leadership among Zakat employees.

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