Elnaz Imanzadeh, Sonia Esmaeilzadeh, Ghasem Elyasi and Parisa Sedaghati
The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the relationship between interactive and innovative leadership styles and the lack of intervention with managers’ emotional intelligence in East- Azarbaijan sport and adolescents departments; for this reason, two multi- agents leadership questionnaire (MLQ) and a Cyber-Shrink emotional intelligence questionnaire were used efficiently. Twenty- six ones of sport department managers were selected randomly. This study was a descriptive and correlative one and in terms of research it was an applied research, too. The results showed that there is a positive significant relationship between emotional intelligence and innovative leadership styles (r=0.70, P<0.01) of course, there is no relationship between the emotional intelligence and the lack of intervention leadership style; that is, the relationship is completely negative (r=-0.39, P<0.05). There are significant relationships between all innovative leadership style elements and emotional intelligence but no significant relationship and emotional intelligence; also, he findings represented that most managers applying transformational leadership which their successors equally believed the same thinking ways, too.
