An Interpretive Structural Model of Socio-Emotional Competencies in the Organizational Communication

The purpose of this study is to examine the Socio-Emotional competencies (SEC) in the organizational communication, identification of its important components and determine the quality of interaction between them.­ This research is an applied and developmental as well as quantitative and qualitative by using interpretive structural modeling method. The study Statistics population is consisted of all Iranian academic experts in the organizational communication; that 15 peoples of them were selected using snowball sampling as statistical sample. The data collection tool is a researcher made matrix table; which designed based on paired comparisons between the components of the research as a square matrix. The results led to identification of 11 important components of SEC; that were placed at 8 different levels of interaction. Also, The Results showed socio-emotional knowledge, Self-awareness, self-management, self-motivation had more effective than other components on SEC. According to the results, we can say that the components of SEC at different levels have effect together, and changes in the quality of each component cause changes in quality of the organizational communication.