The Influence of Emotional Intelligence on Creativity, The Mediating Role of Employee Attitudes: Analysis of Mellat Holding in Kurdistan

Abstract

The recent findings revealed that emotional intelligence has a vital influence in creating creativity, but, so far little effort has been done to verify this. Therefore, the current research aimed to examine the impact of emotional intelligence on creating with the mediation role of employee attitudes at selected at Mellat Holding in Kurdistan region of Iraq. A quantitative research method was applied to measure the current study. A random sampling method was applied, 150 questionnaires distributed but only 121 questionnaires were received. The study used four dimensions of emotional intelligence (social awareness, self-management, relationship management, self-awareness) as independent variable, also employee attitude as a mediator and creativity as dependent variable. The findings revealed that emotional intelligence have direct and indirect significant and positive influence on creativity at Mellat Holding. Furthermore, the study suggested to include employee engagement and employee commitment as future studies.