A Survey on Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Transformational Leadership in Managers Iranian Gas Companies

In this research we examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership in Iranian province gas companies managers. For this purpose, emotional intelligence based on Goleman’s model and transformational leadership based on Bass & Avolio’s model. We proposed 4 main hypotheses and 20 subhypotheses.To obtain data, we used EI questionnaire with 67 questions and transformational leadership questionnaire with 20 questions. After evaluating validity and reliability, questionnaires were distributed among 494 samples which were selected from amongdifferent levels of managers (senior, middle, operational) using random and systematic sampling method. We used statistical inference methods (Pearson’s correlation test) to analyze data. Results obtained from hypothesis testing, confirmed all research hypotheses. There is, therefore a meaningful relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership in Iranian province gas companies managers.