Title: Management strategies for developing teachers' emotional competency

Authors: Eric C.K. Cheng

Addresses: Department of Curriculum and Instruction, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, NT, Hong Kong, China

Abstract: This paper aims to explore teachers' emotional competency skills and discusses effective strategies for developing these skills to promote an emotionally intelligent school. This study adopts Bar-On's (1997) theoretical framework to conceptualise emotional competency into developable multifactorial skills and applies his Emotional Quotient Inventory (1997) to collect data from teachers in 40 aided secondary schools in Hong Kong. A total of 958 teachers participated in this questionnaire survey. A six-factor emotional competency model was explored by using a structural equation model. Strategies for developing an emotionally intelligent workplace are recommended to school administrators for promoting an emotionally intelligent school.

Keywords: management strategies; teacher competency; teachers; emotional competency; emotionally intelligent workplaces; schools; Reuven Bar-On; developable skills; multifactorial skills; emotional quotient inventory; secondary schools; Hong Kong; SEM; structural equation modelling; school administrators; education management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2013.056658

International Journal of Management in Education, 2013 Vol.7 No.4, pp.393 - 405

Published online: 13 Sep 2014 *

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