Study Effect of Big Five Personality Traits on Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Organizational Development (OD)

Complex nature of personality caused the various theory that one of the most famous, is McCrae and Costa (1987) five-factor theory. In view of the personality and its role on emotional intelligence and organizational change and also, with the choice of McCrae and Costa five-factor model, this study is considering the impact of five factors characters on emotional intelligence and organizational development. Present study is a descriptive survey and to collect data, a questionnaire has been used that 386 numbers of employees in the banking sector, hospitals, engineering firms, educational institutions, building companies and service companies in Tehran were selected as research sample. In this research, for data analysis, hypothesis and model testing, Cronbach's alpha coefficient test, Pearson correlation, structural equation modeling (SEM) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used under the both SPSS and LISREL software’s. Research findings indicate a significant effect of "Neuroticism", "Extraversion", "Openness", "Agreeableness" and "Conscientiousness" on "Emotional Intelligence" as well as "Emotional Intelligence" on "Organizational development".