Title: The role of emotional intelligence in employees' organisational citizenship behaviours

Authors: Bindu Gupta

Addresses: Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad, Hapur Road, Raj Nagar, Ghaziabad 201 001, UP, India

Abstract: Organisational citizenship behaviours (OCBs) have been the topic of much research attempting to understand the antecedents and impacts of these behaviours on organisational effectiveness. This study examines the role of emotional intelligence (EI) on employees involvement in OCBs. Respondents (N = 185) from six organisations completed EI and OCBs questionnaires. The results of this study indicated significant differences between the employees with high and low EI for the involvement in OCBs. Further, employees with high EI were more involved in OCBs such as individual initiative, personal industry and loyal boosterism. There was no significant difference between high and low emotional intelligent employees on interpersonal helping behaviour. Implications and limitations of this study are discussed and avenues of future research are identified.

Keywords: EI; emotional intelligence; organisational citizenship behaviour; employees; organisational effectiveness; individual initiative; personal industry; loyal boosterism; interpersonal behaviour; helping behaviour; India; Indian culture; business management.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2012.047415

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2012 Vol.5 No.4, pp.458 - 471

Published online: 20 Dec 2014 *

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