Investigating the effect of managers' emotional intelligence on liquidity risk

Subject Areas : Financial and Behavioral Researches in Accounting

Nazanin Yadegari ¹ , Ali Lalbar ²

1 - Islamic Azad university Arak Branch
2 - استادیار دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی اراک، اراک، ایران.

Received: 2023-05-15 Accepted : 2023-06-30 Published : 2023-06-22

Keywords: self-awareness of managers, social skills of managers, emotional intelligence of managers, Keywords: self-regulation of managers,

Abstract :

AbstractCash is one of the important and vital resources of any economic unit. Controlling risks related to cash or liquidity risk, due to its high importance for the survival of the business unit, should always be considered by the management in financial decisions. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of managers' emotional intelligence on liquidity risk. This research is a correlational descriptive research in terms of its purpose. The research community includes all the companies admitted to the Tehran Stock Exchange in 2022 and the managers of these companies. In order to analyze the data, first the pre-tests of Jarek Bara, DK Folder unit root, White's test, Durbin-Watson and Pearson's correlation coefficient were performed and then to test the research hypotheses, the multiple regression test was used with the help of Eviuz software. According to the data analysis, the results indicated that managers' emotional intelligence, managers' self-awareness, managers' self-regulation, managers' self-motivation, managers' empathy and managers' social skills have an effect on companies' liquidity risk.

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