The Relationship between Organizational Commitment and emotional Intelligence with Strategic Thinking Approach

Subject Areas : Industrial Management

Mahmud Mohammadi ¹ , Mehdi Mortezavi ² , Hossien Assadi ³ , Elham Vahedi ⁴

1 - Assistant Professor, Azad Islamic University, Central Tehran Branch, Management Department, Tehran
2 - Assistant Professor, High Institute of Education and Research in Management and Planning, Tehran
3 - MA in Executive Management, Azad Islamic University, Central Tehran Branch, Management Department, Tehran
4 - Executive Management Department, Alborz, Ghazvin

Received: 2018-01-07 Accepted : 2018-01-07 Published : 2013-12-22

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Abstract :

Nowadays, strategic thinking is recognized as a leading and valuable element in management science at organization and business systems. From a general point of view, strategic thinking is an insight and understanding from status quo and to taking advantage from opportunities. That class of managers that equip to strategic thinking capabilities are able to encourage others personnel to find the creative solution for the success of their organization. Organizational commitment is an important job and organizational attitude that affect in achieve to maximum capabilities of personnel and therefore organizational success. A review in the literature of this subject shows that in various researchers, more emphasis is on cognitive aspects of personal performance, and unfortunately, the effect of emotional aspects is ignored widely in organizational behavior researchers; so focus on emotional variables can explain initial result differences in the behavioral subject. This study is survey- explanatory and applied in nature. It attempts through the test, to appraise the level of emotional intelligence effect from Coleman (2001) opinion that includes self- awareness, self-management, social awareness and relational environment, on the organizational commitment from Allen and Miller (1991) opinion that include emotional commitment, norms commitment and continues commitment. Then with the study of adjustment role of strategic thinking variable on this relationship, accumulate in current empirical evidence. Necessary data for measuring research model is collected with a usage of a standard questioner and through the statistical population that includes staff from various levels of an organization. For analysis of research hypothesis, we used structural equations modeling and Pearson correlation and hierarchical regression. Also, fitness indexes obtained for research conceptual model, show that the model has a high credibility for explaining the relationship between key variables and components.

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