The effect of organizational wisdom on Job satisfaction with due attention to the Mediation role of emotional intelligence

Subject Areas : Business Management

Behzad Shoghi ¹ , Afsane Zamani Moghadam ² , Parivash Jaafari ³

1 - PhD Student in Department of Educational Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - PhD Student in Department of Educational Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor in Department of Educational Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2017-02-13 Accepted : 2017-06-17 Published : 2018-01-21

Keywords: Emotional intelligence, Job satisfaction, Organizational wisdom,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect oforganizational wisdom on job satisfaction with due attention to the mediation role of emotional intelligence among faculty members in Islamic Azad university of Tehran. The research method was Descriptive correlational and an applied quantitative data. The statistical population included faculty members out of which 700 people were chosen through cluster random sampling method. All of them were full-time members. To collect the data three standard questionnaires i.e. organizational wisdom by Brown & Green (2006), Job satisfaction by Herzberg (1966) and emotional intelligence by Mayer et al (1999) were used.  The descriptive statistic such as (mean, standard deviation …) and inferential statistic (structural equation modeling) with the help of SPSS-21 and LISREL-v8.80 software were described.The results indicated that the proposed model was appropriate and the organizational wisdom had significant effect on job satisfaction with due attention to the mediation role of emotional intelligence.

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