The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Commitment in Male Teachers at Elementary Schools in Quchan in Academic Year of 2013-2014
This study aims at investigating the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational commitment in male teachers of elementary schools in Quchan in the 2013-2014 school years. This is an applied research. Since the researcher sought to study the relationship between the two components, this is correlation research. Considering the variables studied, statistical population was all male teachers in grades three and four at primary school in Quchan in the 2013-2014 school years. Total number of teachers obtained from Quchan Department of Education was 98 and due to the small size of study population, sampling wasn't performed and the sample was considered equal to the population. Data collection tools were Meyer and Allen's organizational commitment questionnaire and Siberia Schering's emotional intelligence questionnaire. Having completed the questionnaires, the researcher used mean central statistical indicators and standard deviation dispersion measures and variance for data analysis in descriptive statistics level and in inferential statistics level, they used multivariate linear regression statistic method.The results showed that there was a significant correlation between total emotional intelligence and total organizational commitment. There was also a significant correlation between emotional intelligence and its components and affective organizational commitment; however, there was not a significant correlation between emotional intelligence and continuance and normative commitments.The findings indicated that emotional intelligence has been effective in maintaining and improving organizational commitment and it is necessary to consider it to ensure organizational commitment of teachers, especially at primary school.