The Impact of Leadership Behavior on Employee Readiness for Change: The mediating Role of Emotional Intelligence and Learning Culture

The intense competitive conditions and the dominance of knowledge forces on business arena have created a number of major challenge for the leaders of today's organizations. In such circumstances, the use of appropriate leadership styles in order to influence the staff's readiness for change as well as efforts to promote an organizational learning culture is promissing. The ability of individual employees and especially their ability to understand and accept the need for change which is expressed in terms of emotional intelligence can greatly increase the effectiveness of the above two factors.From these perspective, the current study attempts to investigate the impact of leadership styles on staff readiness for change through the mediating variables of emotional intelligence and organizational learning culture. In terms of content and purpose of this study was descriptive and correlational and the methods of data collection survey. The target organization has (320) employees and the sample size were calculated (175). Sampling stratified random and reliability of the questionnaire was determined using Cronbach's alpha. Analysis of the data was performed using structural equation modeling and LISREL software. The findings indicate that Leadership style, both directly and indirectly through the intermediate variables of emotional intelligence and organizational learning culture promotes the degree of on employee readiness for change in the target population.