Emotional Intelligence and Its Impact on Job Satisfaction of Employees(Case study: Qom Regional Water Company)

Job satisfaction is one of the fundamental and interesting subjects in modern management so that the decrease of job satisfaction in employees will cause huge costs for organizations and on the contrary its presence will develop organizations to a large extent. emotional intelligence is one of the important items which have a large impact on job satisfaction. It has recently attracted the attention of many experts so that some scientists attribute up to 80% of people’s success especially leaders and managers to it.The aim of this study was to demonstrate the impact of emotional intelligence and its components on job satisfaction. In this study the effect of managers’ emotional intelligence on employees’ job satisfaction was evaluated. The method of the study was descriptive survey. The main hypothesis of this study indicates that there is a significant difference between managers’ emotional intelligence and employees’ job satisfaction. According to Daniel Goleman model emotional intelligence has five components of self awareness, self regulation, self motivation , empathy and social skills among which the component of social skills has the most relationship and self awareness has the least relationship with employees’ job satisfaction. finally, the study results show a relative large correlation between managers’ emotional intelligence and employees’’ job satisfaction.