The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Entrepreneurship among Employees of Sport and Youth General Administration of Hormozgan Province

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence and the organizational entrepreneurship among employees of Sport and Youth General Administration of Hormozgan province. In this study, the relationship between demographic characteristics and emotional intelligence, the relationship between demographic characteristics and organizational entrepreneurship, the relationship between the components of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, empathy and social skills) and the organizational entrepreneurship and forecasting organizational entrepreneurship through the components of emotional intelligence among employees of Sport and Youth General Administration of Hormozgan province were studied in the form of specific objectives of the research. According to the study objectives, research method was descriptive - correlational and data collection was conducted by field method. The study population included all employees of Sport and Youth General Administration of Hormozgan province (a total of 97 people). Due to the limitation of the study population, sampling was done by complete enumeration method (n = N = 97). To collect research data, subjects filled two questionnaires of Siberia Schering Emotional Intelligence (1996) and Margaret Hill organizational entrepreneurship questionnaire (2003). To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistical indicators such as KS, to determine normal distribution of data, and analysis of bivariate simple linear regression were used to examine the research hypotheses and all analyses were performed using SPSS version 22. The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between entrepreneurship of Sport and Youth General Administration of Hormozgan province and self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation, empathy and social skills. By these interpretations, it is obvious that one of the most important features of organizational employees must be high emotional intelligence because it has great effect on achieving organizational entrepreneurship and consequently achieving organizational goals.