Explaining the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the dimensions of emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior. The study population included 2610 employees aware of the knowledge management and the sample size was 335 people based on Morgan and Grjsy table. Bradbery and Graves Emotional Intelligence Questionnaires (2007) and Podsakoffs OCB (2000) were used to collect data. The reliability of the questionnaires with Cronbachs alpha for the two variables were 0.87 and 0.84 respectively. To analyze the data and to check the normality of the data Kolmogorov - Smirnov test and to test the hypothesis the Pearson correlation test were used. Results of the data analysis indicated that there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior and self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management have significant relationship with OCB.