Studying the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence of Employees and Corporate Social Responsibility

This study has been conducted to study the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and corporate social responsibility in Sham-sham food industry in Shiraz, in which the EI concept includes the five dimensions of self-awareness, self-control, motivation, empathy and social skills, and the corporate social responsibility also includes the five dimensions of employee communications, quality of the product, social communications, environmental results and various results, and was evaluated by means of the questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed among 105 individuals of the population which covers all the employees of Sham-sham food industry in Shiraz. The descriptive research method is of the correlation type. To analyze the data by the SPSS software, the one-sided Variance analysis (ANOVA), correlation coefficient, Regression test, Friedman ranking test, etc. were used. The results are indicative of a positive relationship between corporate social responsibility and all dimensions of EI except employees’ self-awareness dimension. Results also indicate that social skills, among EI dimensions and quality of company products, among social responsibility dimensions, are the highest priorities.