<p>ABSTRACT<br />Objective: Nowadays, human relationships with the organizations are among the most important issues and organizational problems which can<br />direct the organization to the crash point. Emotional intelligence (EI) has extensively influenced the work-related behaviors such as teamwork,<br />expansion of the talents, innovation, service providing quality, and customer loyalty and can lead to job satisfaction and organizational commitment.<br />Therefore, according to the effects that EI can exert on the organizational commitment and productivity of the organization, the present study has<br />been conducted with the objective of surveying the relationship between EI and organizational commitment.<br />Methods: The present study is a cross-sectional descriptive-analytical research which has been conducted on 160 individuals from Zahedan Medical<br />Sciences University staff who were selected based on a random method in 2016. To gather the information, a three-part questionnaire was applied the<br />first part of which was connected to the demographic characteristics; the second part was related to the EI standard questionnaire; the third part was<br />pertaining to the organizational commitment standard questionnaire. Data were analyzed by taking advantage of SPSS 19 and descriptive statistics,<br />Pearson correlation, variance analysis, and independent t-test.<br />Results: The results of the present study indicated that the individuals’ average age was 36.54±10.03, 98 individuals were women, 137 individuals<br />were married. The individual’s total mean score in EI was 114.11±14.07 which has been reported to be high, according to the questionnaire ranking<br />and the organizational commitment total mean score was 75.19±7.7. In the present study, the relationship between EI and organizational commitment<br />was found to be statistically significant (p=0.005).<br />Conclusion: The results obtained in the current study are consistent with the results obtained from the cited studies, and there was a significant<br />relationship between EI and organizational commitment.<br />Keywords: Organizational commitment, Emotional intelligence, University staff.</p>