THE EFFECTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL POLITICS AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON AFFECTIVE COMMITMENT

This study was conducted with the aim of examining the effects of organizational politics (OP) and emotional intelligence (EI) on Affective commitment..Cluster sampling technique was used to select three public universities which is found in Amhara region,Ethiopia.The participants(n=332) was selected from these public universities using simple random sampling technique.The statistical analysis method includes descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling(SEM) .IBM SPSS AMOS 23 software was employed for testing the hypotheses using the collected data from the respondents at a particular point of time.To measure the relation that exists between the independent and dependent variables this study employs self-reporting questionnaire based on five point likert scale.The result of the study shows that perceptions of organizational politics and Emotional intelligence predict affective commitment negatively and positively respectively