| Contemporary studies in business management purport significant relationships among emotional intelligence, leadership style, and organizational climate and how each contribute to the overall performance of organizational outcomes. Likewise, education research has established significant relationships between specific leadership behaviors and openness of education organizations and the effects of both on student achievement.; This exploratory study considers distinctions between two competing emotional intelligence constructs, attempts to refine and extend a more focused leadership model, and probes theoretical, empirical, and structural relationships among teachers' perceptions of principal emotional intelligence, principal leadership behavior, and principal openness in elementary schools throughout Ohio. Further, this work offers tentative findings that suggest self and social awareness of principals as well as principals' competencies in managing self and others are critical to the development of enabling structure and open interpersonal processes in schools and reveals important questions that guide more extensive research related to principal emotional intelligence, leadership style, openness, and other variables presumed related, either directly or indirectly, to student achievement. |
