Open AccessA study on relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational indifference through the organizational commitment: A case study of an Iranian firm
Author(s) -
Hafez Mollaabbasi,
Behrooz Rezaeemanesh,
Jamshid Salehi Sadaghiani
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
management science letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1923-9343
pISSN - 1923-9335
DOI - 10.5267/j.msl.2013.04.022
Subject(s) - organizational commitment , psychology , emotional intelligence , business , knowledge management , social psychology , business administration , computer science
This research surveys the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational indifference through a commitment. The study first presents theoretical models over the investigation then six hypotheses are developed based on the conceptual model for this opinion. Questionnaire contains 16 questions for organizational indifference and 20 questions for organizational commitment and 23 questions for emotional intelligence. The Cronbach's alpha of organizational indifference questionnaire is 0.938 and the Cronbach's alpha of organizational commitment questionnaire is equal to 0.802 and Emotional Intelligence questionnaire reliability coefficient is 0.961. Both questionnaires maintain sufficient reliability because their Cronbach alphas are more than 0.7. The sample size is chosen according KREJCIE and Morgan table and is equal to 235 people. Kolmongrov – Smirnov test is used for normality of the obtained data. Research hypothesis and the correlations between variables are tested by Spearman correlation test. The results imply approval of all research hypotheses and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational indifference