The Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Learning Culture on the Relationship between Leader’s Behavior and Employee Readiness for Change The Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Learning Culture on the Relationship between Leader’s Behavior and Employee Readiness for Change

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The complex competitive condition and the dominance of knowledge forces on business arena have created a number of major challenge for the leaders of today's organizations. In such circumstances, applying appropriate leadership styles in order to influence the staff readiness for change as well as efforts to promote organizational learning culture is a proper solution. The ability of individual employees and especially their ability to understand and accept the need for change which is expressed in terms of emotional intelligence can greatly increase the intensity of the effect of the above two factors. From these perspective, the current study attempts to investigate the impact of leadership styles on staff readiness for change through the mediator variables of emotional intelligence and organizational learning culture. This study is an applied one in terms of purpose and it is a descriptive survey in terms of data gathering method. The statistical population of the study consists of all employees of the studied organization (320). The sample size were calculated as 175 people according to Cochran formula. Sampling method was stratified random and reliability of the questionnaire was determined using Cronbach alpha formula. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling and LISREL software. The findings indicate that leadership style has an effect on the employee readiness for change in the target population both directly and indirectly through the mediator variables of emotional intelligence and organizational learning culture.

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Organizational Behaviour Studies Quarterly
Volume 5, Issue 3 - Serial Number 19
serial no 19
December 2016
Pages 163-195

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