Studying the Effect of Emotional Quotient on Employee’s Job Satisfaction

The studies indicated that the managers and experts who have high levels of emotional quotient have more technical experiences and also have more skills to solving new tensions, organizational and group weaknesses, and existence vacuums. Also it is claimed that employee’s emotional quotient could predict related outcomes such as job performance and job satisfaction. The present study was descriptive-sectional. The statistical population of this study includes all of employees of Isfahan University of medical sciences inits seven assistances and all of faculties. The number of this population was 1183 employees that 645 of them were male and remaining 438 employees were female. In order to sampling, random sampling method has been used. In order to this, first the primary study has been done and its variation placed in sampling method and then the final sample size has been determined 129 employees. In order to analyzing data and concluding results, Pearson correlation and one sample T test have used in SPSS. Average of sample member’s age was 37.71 that 86.6% of them were male and 13.4% were female, 9.3% of them single and 90.7% were married, 27.1% of them were diploma, 18.4% were BA, 51.8% were MS, and only 2.7% of them were higher levels (MA and Ph.D.). The results of data analysis indicated that there is significant positive correlation between emotional quotient and all dimensions of job satisfaction. These dimensions include public mood, interpersonal relations, intrapersonal relations, and agreeableness with sig 0.01 and the control dimension with sig 0.05. This means that increasing emotional quotientleads to improving employee’s job satisfaction in all of its dimensions. The results of this study indicated that there are significant relationships between emotional quotient and all dimensions of job satisfaction

Emotional Quotient, Job Satisfaction, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences