Validity and Effect of Emotional intelligence on Effectiveness of Organizational Leaders and the Enterprise

Introduction

Validity is the extent to which a test measures what it claims to measure. It is essential for a test to be valid in order for the results to be accurately applied and interpreted. Validity isn’t determined by a single statistic, but by a body of research that demonstrates the relationship between the test and the behavior it has set out to measure.

This paper examines the issue of validity research, comparing, and contrasting the characteristics of internal, external, and construct validity, while identifying the threats to them. It also briefly reflects upon how validity could impact the research I’ve envisioned on the “Effect of Emotional intelligence on Effectiveness of Organizational Leaders and the Enterprise with Special Reference to Information Security”.

The term validity expresses the degree to which a given research design actually measures what it sets out to measure, given that the central aim of research design is to establish a relationship between the independent and dependent variables with a high degree of certainty (Bless et al. 2006, p. 93).

Internal Validity

The internal validity of a research design refers to there being a relation between observed changes in the dependent variable, and the independent variable. It is about the isolation of the dependent variable, whereby alternative explanations to the hypothesis are ruled out in the research design. This makes it impossible for observed changes in the dependent variable to be attributed to anything other than the independent variable (Bless et al. 2006, p. 93). Internal validity is crucial in any study that aims to establish a relationship of causality between variables, and does not apply to most descriptive and observational studies....

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...cher to put together all of the disparate pieces of their research puzzle In the proposed research on emotional intelligence and the impact on organizations, internal validity will be of the greatest importance.

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