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THE EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON JOB SATISFACTION: A CASE STUDY IN EDUCATION

A. Ozer, N. Dede, O. Yildirim

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Abstract

The importance of understanding Emotional intelligence (EI) skills has gravitated form the business management to training activities. The increasing number of recent researches on this relatively new subject have been tried to investigate its relationships to miscellaneous well-known concepts. Thus, this study aimed at exploring the relationship between one of those well-known concepts, job satisfaction, and emotional intelligence. To this end, a research has been conducted on the academic personnel (n=82) of four foundation universities in Istanbul. In the research, participants emotional intelligence was assessed by the Emotional Competence Inventory (ECI, 2nd Version) developed by Boyatzis and Goleman. According to the results, a weak relationship (r<0,40) was revealed between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction. On the other hand, one of the four dimensions of emotional intelligence, “self management”, was found to be strongly related (r>0,40) to the job satisfaction.

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Title
THE EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON JOB SATISFACTION: A CASE STUDY IN EDUCATION
Authors
A. Ozer, N. Dede, O. Yildirim
Proceedings
8th International Scientific Conference - SGEM2008
Publisher
SGEM Scientific GeoConference
Year
2008
Pages
667-672
ISSN
1314-2704
ISBN
954-918181-2
Language
en
Publication type
Conference Paper
Keywords
assessmentemotional intelligencejob satisfaction
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