Pengaruh kompetensi emosi dan kepimpinan ke atas kualiti pensyarah Kolej Komuniti Malaysia

National Economic Consultative Council reported only twenty percent of the workforce in Malaysia are skilled workers. According to the report, the Community Colleges of Malaysia have failed in its vision and mission to provide
sufficient number of skilled workers for the country. Thus the aim of this study is to review the influence of emotional competence and visionary leadership towards the quality of lecturers. Gender, age and length of service are also being analyzed as the research variables. In addition, this study also looks at the role of visionary leadership as the main mediator towards the influence of emotional competence and quality of lecturers. The cross-sectional survey method which involves three
main instruments namely the Emotional Competence Inventory, Visionary Leadership Inventory and Teaching Quality Inventory are used in the data collection process. The sample of the study consists of 480 senior lecturers from Community Colleges. The multivariate data analysis techniques such as Correlation Analysis, t-test, and Stepwise Regression Analysis are applied in this study. The results of the findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between emotional competence and visionary leadership on the teaching quality of the lecturers. Through the Stepwise Regression Analysis, the findings show
that emotional competence contributes towards the change of variance in the quality of communication, management and lecturers, commitment. However, visionary leadership seems to have an influence in the creation, development and implementation of the vision and the visibility of the goals. The findings also show that visionary leadership is the main mediator towards the relationship between emotional competence and teaching quality of lecturers. In general, this study shows that the Community Colleges play a vital role in implementing and strengthening the level of professionalism of the lecturers in the aspects of emotional competence and visionary leadership in order to enhance the teaching
quality of the lecturers. This will empower a competitive and innovative human capital for Malaysia towards a high income nation by the year 2020.