TY - JOUR T1 - The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Administrator Leadership Practices: The Role of Islamic Work Ethic AU - Shamsudin, Abdul Shukor AU - Romle, Abd Rahim AU - Rahman, Hamzah Abdul JO - The Social Sciences VL - 11 IS - 31 SP - 7596 EP - 7601 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1818-5800 DO - sscience.2016.7596.7601 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.7596.7601 KW - leadership practices KW -Islamic work ethic KW -Emotional intelligence KW -correlation KW -quality AB - This study aims to examine the role of Islamic work ethic on the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership practices among Malaysian public university administrators. Initially, the current higher education challenges require public universities to function effectively. Therefore, their employees need to equip themselves with several managerial skills such as leadership quality. Using the regular postal service, the questionnaires were sent directly to the identified respondents all over Malaysia. A total of 289 usable responses was received from a sample of 500 administrators. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS Version 19. The findings suggested that all emotional dimensions have significant correlation with leadership practices and it is noticed that Islamic work ethic only moderates the relationship between using of emotions and leadership practices. Finally, the limitations and possiblefuture research were also have been discussed in this study. ER -