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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
JANURAY 2011
VOL 2, NO 9
Figure 2: Relation between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction with
regulativeness of organizational learning capability
Therefore, the first hypothesis about the effect of organizational learning capability on the relation
between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction is rejected according to the obtained results. And
so we can not claim that organizational learning capability is a regulative variable for the relation
between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction. This result does not support research results of
Chiva and Alegre (2008), since they obtained a strong relation about the effectiveness of
organizational learning capability on the relation between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction.
Hypothesis 2: there is a positive relation between organizational learning capability and job
satisfaction.
Pierson correlation coefficient has been used to test this hypothesis. Obtained results demonstrate that
correlation coefficient between organizational learning capability and job satisfaction is significant on
the level p≤0.5 based on results of table 8. Therefore, there is a positive significant relation between
organizational learning capability and job satisfaction. Findings of this research is compatible with
research results of Wagner and LePine (1999), Gartner (2000), Griffin et al (2001), Chiva and Alegre
(2008) who have identified a positive relation between organizational learning capability or some
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