The Effect of cultural and emotional intelligence on performance of counties employees working in Tehran with emphasis on cross-cultural adaptation

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1 Associate Professor, Faculty of Economic, Management and Political Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

2 Ph.D. Student in Human Resource Management, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Abstract

present study aimed to investigate the effect of cultural and emotional intelligence on performance of county employees working in Tehran considering the mediator role of cross cultural adaptation. This study is a descriptive research. The study sample consists of managers (120) and county employees (700) working in private companies in the computer industry and mobile, given the limited number of first community simple sampling method was used and in the second community due to calculated sample size of 240, according to Morgan table, stratified random sampling method was used. Data collection tools include two researcher made questionnaires of 36 and 10 questions, their validity was confirmed by both Convergent and Discriminant methods and reliability was confirmed using Composite reliability. Data analysis was done using software Amos 21 and structural equation modeling method was performed. The results showed that the Cultural and emotional intelligence of county employees working in Tehran have a significant positive impact on cross-cultural adaptation and their performance. Other results indicate the positive mediator role of cross-cultural adaptation in the relation between employees’ cultural and emotional intelligence with their performance in these companies.
 
 
 
 
 

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Organizational Culture Management
Volume 14, Issue 4
January 2017
Pages 1137-1159

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