The Evaluation of the Relationship between EQ Factors of Employees and Anti-Citizenship Organizational Behavior

Abstract

The aim of this research is to evaluate the relationship between EQ factors of employees and anti-citizenship organizational behavior. The research method is descriptive-correlation and its aim is applied. Research sample includes all the municipality employees of region 5 of Teheran that are more than 380 people. Via using Morgan table, the sample was calculated as 191 persons and random sampling method is used. The main tool of data gathering is survey and questionnaire. To assess EQ of employees, a standard questionnaire Bradbury and Greaves of the 4 factors of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and social skill was used. To counter anti-citizenship organizational behavior questionnaire was used according to Gholipour and PourEzzat. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and was conducted by using LISREL software. The results show that there is a meaningful and negative relationship between EQ factors of employees and anti-organizational citizenship behavior and components of social awareness and social skills have the greatest impact on the anti-citizenship organizational behavior.