The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to identify that action learning coach's emotional intelligence influences team performance positively and significantly through the variables of LCMX(Learning Coach-Member Exchange), TMX(Team-Member Exchange), a...
The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to identify that action learning coach's emotional intelligence influences team performance positively and significantly through the variables of LCMX(Learning Coach-Member Exchange), TMX(Team-Member Exchange), and GEIN(Group Emotional Intelligence Norms).
Two statistical programs(SPSS 12.0 and AMOS 16.0) were used in the analysis of the survey responses collected from 45 learning coaches and 130 team members from both an oil company so called HDO and KALA(Korea Action Learning Association) in Korea.
The outcomes of this dissertation are as follows:
1) The total significant and positive influence effect of learning coach's emotional intelligence on team performance(β=.629) results mainly from indirect effects(β=.908) rather than from direct effect, which is negative(β=-.279).
2) Through a single or multiple mediations by LCMX, TMX, and GEIN, does the learning coach's emotional intelligence influence team performance positively and significantly. The modes of influencing team performance by each mediator are different: GEIN variable plays a role of full mediation while LCMX and TMX variables play a partial mediation respectively between learning coach's emotional intelligence and team performance. The size of total influential effect of three mediation variables is GEIN, LCMX, and TMX in order. Particularly TMX variable influences team performance negatively and insignificantly.
3) The total effects of GEIN, in particular, is the largest, which explains 85% of the variance of team performance. The direct and indirect effects of GEIN are also largest among three mediation variables.
4) The operation methods of LCMX and TMX between learning coach's emotional intelligence and team performance are found to be different. While LCMX variable influences team performance significantly and positively not only directly but also through TMX and GEIN in sequence, TMX variable gives an indirect influence through GEIN significantly and positively but influences directly negatively and insignificantly.
Not only for the learning coaches working in the field, but also for the organizations which utilize an action learning as a tool for solving organizational strategic issues and developing the competences of their employees, these findings suggest the productive positive ways on enhancing their team performance by developing their team leader's emotional intelligence and further establishing the norms of group emotional intelligence. Furthermore those organizations whose basic operating unit are teams will be able to get the practical tips on how to enhance their team performance by developing the individual emotional intelligence of their team members as well as team leaders and further establishing the norms of group emotional intelligence in teams.
Finally the limitations of this dissertation and the direction for the future research are also mentioned.