Abstract
Consciousness as one of the main factor of personality influences on job satisfaction of academic staff and both of these factors assumed as important factors in university. Indeed, level of job satisfaction depends on personality characteristic of academic staff at work. The central purpose of current study was to investigating role of emotional intelligence as mediator factor between consciousness and job satisfaction among 440 academic staff in public research universities. Instruments used to collect data were Job Descriptive Index, Big Five Inventory and Emotional Intelligence Inventory. Descriptive and inferential statistic was used to analyze the data and also SEM applied for illustrated role of mediator factor between consciousness and job satisfaction. The results of present study shown that among factors of emotional intelligence, utilization mediates relationship between consciousness and job satisfaction. Certainly, these results have significant implication on the policies universities specially universities in Malaysia.Consciousness as one of the main factor of personality influences on job satisfaction of academic staff and both of these factors assumed as important factors in university. Indeed, level of job satisfaction depends on personality characteristic of academic staff at work. The central purpose of current study was to investigating role of emotional intelligence as mediator factor between consciousness and job satisfaction among 440 academic staff in public research universities. Instruments used to collect data were Job Descriptive Index, Big Five Inventory and Emotional Intelligence Inventory. Descriptive and inferential statistic was used to analyze the data and also SEM applied for illustrated role of mediator factor between consciousness and job satisfaction. The results of present study shown that among factors of emotional intelligence, utilization mediates relationship between consciousness and job satisfaction. Certainly, these results have significant implication on the policies universities specially universities in Malaysia.
Highlights
Jon satisfaction assumed as an important organizational feeling that covered physiological and psychological factors among staff at university
This section of the study provides details of destribution of variables and describs the decriptive statistic of all variables that used in current study
The present study proposes that utilization as one of the emotional intelligence factors mediates the relationship between consciousness and job satisfaction among academic staff in universities, Malaysia
Summary
Jon satisfaction assumed as an important organizational feeling that covered physiological and psychological factors among staff at university This inner organizational feeling associated with various factors such as internal and external factors that by their influence changed its levels, brilliantly (Aziri, 2011).Job satisfaction is a combination of internal and external factors that staff contact with them in during of their work and change their attitudes and feeling toward job based on this factors (Olorunsola, 2012). Because university assumed as one of the principle part in educational organization and its outcomes have direct relation with society development (Dhanapal, Alwie, Subramaniam, & Vashu, 2013). This view supported by Gebremicheal and Rao (2013) who explain that job satisfaction has great contribution in health of university and helps to increasing the amount of university’s outcomes. Lack of consideration to this inner feeling lead to uncommon behavior such as low level of responsibility, aggression and anxiety, cancel the work, exhaustion, insufficient behavior with co-workers etc. (Ahmad, Ahmad & Ali Shah, 2010; Eslami &Gharakhani, 2012)
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