Emotional Intelligence and Human Resource Management: The Case of Municipal Sports Organizations

Indoor sports facilities of the municipal sports organizations managed by persons that are sports managers, physical education teachers and others holding degrees by the human resource or business management department. This studys aim is to assess the psychometric properties of the Wrong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS) in these managers. Ninety-nine directors of the indoor sports facilities of the East Attica municipal sports organization were randomly selected to participate in the study. All the subjects rated in the items of the questionnaire were validated in Greek by Kafetsios and Zampetakis. Exploratory factor analysis of the data confirmed the four factors of the scale as 1. Self emotion appraisal, 2. Others emotion appraisal, 3. Use of emotion and 4. Regulation of emotion and he Cronbachs alpha of the scale was 0.82, while the internal consistency of each factor revealed the coefficients from 0.70 to 0.75. Further studies with larger samples of the sports managers employed in the municipal sports organization are needed to confirm the results of the present study.