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The Effect of Emotional Labor Strategies on Employees Job Performance and Organizational Commitment in Hospital Sector: Moderating Role of Emotional Intelligence in Iran

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In this article, the effects of emotional labor strategies on job performance and organizational commitment by considering the role of emotional intelligence were investigated, where 136 questionnaires were distributed to nurses serving in a community hospital, which the results from analysis of them based on simple linear regression and multiple hierarchical regression show that emotional labour strategies influences on job performances and organization commitment.
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4 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of emotional labor strategies on job performance and organizational commitment by considering the role of emotional intelligence. With increasing development of economy and competition among service providers, management of employees, feelings is considered as a vital aspect in providing services to customers and influences organizational out comes. Thus service organization, based on the results of the present study, would be able to identify and manage feeling and emotions of their employees in providing high quality and superior services to target customers and in addition to promote the spirit of service providing and effectiveness of employees, create some competitive advantages for themselves. Totally, 136 questionnaires were distributed to nurses, serving in a community hospital, which the results from analysis of them based on simple linear regression and multiple hierarchical regression show that emotional labor strategies influences on job performance and organizational commitment and in addition to it, variable of emotional intelligence moderates these influences too.

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