Studying Relationships between Personality Characteristics and Emotional Intelligence of Entrepreneurs in Small Businesses of Tehran

Today emotional intelligence is one of the most important matters in management. The present essay is attempting to study relationship between personality characteristics of entrepreneurs and emotional intelligence. The research method is combination of descriptive and correlation methods. Data gathering method is a combination of questionnaire and library methods. The results of the research shows direct relationship between need to achievement, risk taking, ambiguity acceptance, creativity and autonomy of entrepreneurs as five assumptions of research and non-correlation with internal center of control. Of course in this research some effectual variables on emotional intelligence were recognized.