The Relationship between Organizational Commitment and emotional Intelligence with Strategic Thinking Approach

Nowadays, strategic thinking is recognized as a leading and valuable element in management science at organization and business systems. From a general point of view, strategic thinking is an insight and understanding from status quo and to taking advantage from opportunities. That class of managers that equip to strategic thinking capabilities, are able to encourage others personnel to find creative solution for success of their organization. Organizational commitment is an important job and organizational attitude that affect in achieve to maximum capabilities of personnel and therefore organizational success. A review in literature of this subject show that in various researches, more emphasis is on cognitive aspects of personnel performance, and unfortunately the effect of emotional aspects is ignored widely in organizational behaviour researches; so focus on emotional variables can explain initial result differences in behavioural subject. This study is survey- explanatory and applied in nature. It attempts through test, to appraise the level of emotional intelligence effect from Coleman (2001) opinion that include self- awareness, self-management, social awareness and relational environment, on the organizational commitment from Allen and Miller (1991) opinion that include emotional commitment, norms commitment and continues commitment. Then with study of adjustment role of strategic thinking variable on this relationship, accumulate in current empirical evidence. Necessary data for measuring research model is collected with usage of a standard questioners and through statistical population that include staff from various levels of an organization. For analysis of research hypothesis, we used structural equations modeling and Pearson correlation and hierarchical regression. Also fitness indexes obtained for research conceptual model, show that the model has a high credibility for explaining relationship between key variables and components.