The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Creativity with the Organizational Effectiveness

Subject Areas : Creativity and innovation from psychological, epistemological, educational and pedagogical

Siroos Ghanbari ¹ , Mohamadreza Ardalan ² , Bahram Mohammadi ³

1 - دانشگاه بوعلی سینا، دانشیار و هیئت‌علمی گروه علوم تربیتی، همدان، ایران [e-mail]
2 - دانشگاه بوعلی سینا، استادیار و هیئت‌علمی گروه علوم تربیتی، همدان، ایران [e-mail]
3 - دانشگاه بوعلی سینا، دانشجوی دکتری مدیریت آموزشی همدان، ایران (نویسندة مسئول) [e-mail]

Received: 2016-06-28 Accepted : 2016-06-28 Published : 2014-10-23

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, Creativity, Organizational Effectiveness,

Abstract :

  Background: Organizational Effectiveness has been defined as achieving organizational objectives, the degree of closing to expected goals and achieving short-term and long-term goals with respect to beneficent expectations, evaluations and organizational life stages. Organizational effectiveness is one of the most important features of leading organizations that has a significant relationship with the inter-organizational components such as performance, creativity and employee’s talent. Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and creativity with the organizational effectiveness of high schools in Sanandaj. Methods: Research Method was descriptive and correlation. The population of the study, some 869 people, were all secondary school teachers in Sanandaj in 2013-2014. A sample of 250 people with multi-stages cluster sampling method was determined by Cochran formula. The data collection tools used were emotional intelligence and organizational effectiveness questionnaires and creativity test. Results: The results of the analysis data demonstrate a significant relationship between self consciousness, social skills and self  motivation as part of emotional intelligence and the whole components of creativity with organizational effectiveness of schools. Regression analysis results showed that the variables of teachers and fluidity and are flexibility in the highest and lowest correlation with the organizational effectiveness of schools. Multiple regression results also showed that teacher’s emotional intelligence and their creativity explained parley 0.565% of organizational effectiveness variance. Conclusion: It is claimed that the most significant result of this study is strengthening of the teachers intelligence and creativity, improving the organizational effectiveness of schools.