Examining Emotional Intelligence Amongst Mid-Level Managers of the Ready Made Garments Sector of Bangladesh

Abstract

It is a pilot study, part of a thesis, where we attempted to find out emotional intelligence's four construct’s, Self-emotional awareness, recognizing others’ emotions and use of it, Identifying, Managing and Use of Emotions, Regulation of Emotion. Relationship with the leadership behaviours amongst the mid-level managers of readymade garments Bangladesh. The research used quantitative methodology, adopted survey method for collecting data. Four hundred and seventy (470) managers and same numbers (470) of workers who worked under those managers had been surveyed through structured questionnaires in fifty RMG factories at Dhaka. Ten managers and ten workers were selected at random from each factory making it a total 940. We used SPSS to analyse the data. The result showed Use of Emotions had no significant role in determining the type of leadership behaviours likely to be practiced by mid-level managers of the RMG Bangladesh. The managers were also not well acquainted with the term emotional intelligence therefore, their use of it as a tool for leadership had been negligible. Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership behaviour, RMG, Bangladesh.

Keywords: Garments, Bangladesh, Ready Made, Self-emotional, leadership