The relationship between emotional intelligence of managers and application of servant leadership style in Iran Distributing Company

Abstract

By the emergence of the information age and promoted value of human communications and  the advent of organizational strategic positions, the theory of emotional intelligence has significantly grown and become one of prevalent and popular areas of the organization. Emotional Intelligence is a comprehensive term that covers a broad set of individual skills and characteristics going beyond a specific scope of prior knowledge such as technical or professional skills. In this paper, we investigated the effect of emotional intelligence of managers on the application of servant leadership style in Iran Distribution Company. SPSS software was used for analysis. According to Pearson correlation coefficient results, there is a significant relationship between the components of emotional intelligence of managers and application of servant leadership style. As the number of employees is approximately 700, the sample size was obtained 248 using Cochran's Formula.