Title:
THE EFFECT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE : STUDY IN KPO PT. BANK ACEH SYARIAH

Authors:
*Daniel Kurniawan, Muhammad Adam and Sofyan Idris

Abstract:
This study is to determine: (1) the effect of transformational leadership on emotional intelligence of Employees; (2) transformational leadership on employee performance, and; (3) emotional intelligence on employee performance. The object is the Operational Head Office (KPO) PT. Bank Aceh Syariah in Banda Aceh and the respondent is its employees. Census method is used to determine the amount of the sample so it provides 183 people as a sample. As this research model is a causality, to analyze the data it is used structural equation modeling (SEM) with AMOS software. The result shows that Transformational leadership influences emotional intelligence significantly, and Transformational leadership influences employee performance significantly, and Emotional Intelligence influences employee performance significantly. The causality results contribute to academic that these all can be updates for causality theories to be new premises, and can be develop in the next research by another researchers. The originality is in the integration of the models that is taken from several previous research. These all findings has an implication to managers especially related to KPO PT. Bank Aceh Syariah to pay more attention about the causality among variables in this research. The limitation of this research lies in the number of variables and object