Individual Assignment 3:

A researcher wants to test the following hypotheses:

H1:

There is a significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence and

employee engagement.

H2:

There are significant positive relationships between employee engagement and (i)
organizational commitment, (ii) intrinsic work satisfaction, and (iii) turnover
intentions.

H3:

Employee engagement mediates the relationships between (i) emotional intelligence

and organizational commitment, (ii) emotional intelligence and intrinsic work
satisfaction, and (iii) emotional intelligence and turnover intentions.

H4:

Workplace spirituality moderates the relationship between emotional intelligence

and employee engagement.

Detailed information about the variables measured is provided below. The response of a
sample of 271 employees working at different organizations can be found in the data set
uploaded in your course-site (Assignment3 Data Set.xls).
Items and Scales in the Data Set
1. I1 to I16 Emotional Intelligence
2. II1 to II21- Workplace Spirituality
3. III1 to III6 Organizational Commitment
4. IV1 to IV4 Intrinsic Work Satisfaction
5. IV6 to IV22 Employee Engagement
6. IV23 to IV25 Turnover Intentions
Demographic Variables
Gender: 1 Male, 2 Female
Marital Status: 1 Unmarried, 2 Married
Qualification: 1 SLC or below, 2 Intermediate, 3 Bachelor, 4 Master or above
Position: Support level, 2 Officer Level, 3 Managerial or above
There are no reverse scored items.
Please do the followings
1. Provide sample characteristics by calculating descriptive statistics.

The descriptive statistics mean and standard deviation are calculated are given the
output file.

2. Test the reliability of all scales by Cronbachs alpha

Following table show the Cronbacs Alpha of all the variable. The table shows that
the alpha were all above 0.70. Thus the internal consistency reliability of the
measures used in this study can be considered to be acceptable.
Variable
Emotional Intelligence
Workplace Spirituality
Organizational
Commitment
Intrinsic Work
Satisfaction
Employee
Engagement
Turnover Intention

Number of
Cronbach's
items
alpha
16
0.897
21
0.899
16

0.883

0.836

17
3

0.9
0.858

3. If Cronbachs alpha is insufficiently low (<.70), increase the reliability of the

scales by omitting those items that are relatively uncorrelated with the other
items of a scale.

From above table we see that none of the Cronbachs alpha are greater than 0.70.
Hence it is not required to omit items that are relatively uncorrelated with the other
items of a scale.

4. Create a variable for each scale by averaging across those items that have
acceptable reliability (do not include those items if you have deleted any items
for increasing reliability).

Since questionnaires are in scales of 7, all the means are above average.

5. Prepare a correlation matrix including all variables.

Correlations
EI
Pearson Correlation
EI

Pearson Correlation
WS

OC

**

.646

TI

.466**

.600**

-.023

.000

.000

.000

.000

.741

174

210

212

193

205

**

**

**

-.171*

174

215

**

**

.760

.760

.574

.000

.000

.013

212

213

192

208

**

**

-.245**

.000

.000

.000

264

234

256

**

-.169**

.000

.006

.000

.000

210

212

266

**

**

**

.667

.667

.000

Sig. (2-tailed)

.466

EE

.516**

.516

IWS

.646**

.000

Pearson Correlation
IWS

214

OC

Sig. (2-tailed)
Pearson Correlation

.732

.732

.623

.565

Sig. (2-tailed)

.000

.000

.000

212

213

264

268

237

258

**

**

**

**

-.271**

Pearson Correlation

.600

.574

.623

.565

Sig. (2-tailed)

.000

.000

.000

.000

193

192

234

237

239

231

-.023

-.171

**

**

**

Sig. (2-tailed)

.741

.013

.000

.006

.000

205

208

256

258

231

Pearson Correlation
TI

Sig. (2-tailed)
N

EE

WS

-.245

-.169

.000
-.271

261

From the analysis of correlation table and based upon our hypothesis we can deduce
following:
There is the positive correlation between emotional Intelligence and Employee
Engagement at the significance level of 0.01
There is the positive correlation between Employee Engagement and organization
commitment at the significance level of 0.01
There is the positive correlation between Employee Engagement and intrinsic work
satisfaction at the significance level of 0.01.There is the negative correlation between
Employee Engagement and the Turnover Intention.
Since the direct correlation between emotional intelligence and organization commitment is
less that of Employee engagement and organizational commitment, we can say Employee
engagement mediates the relationship Emotional Intelligence and Organizational
Commitment and similarly between emotional intelligence and intrinsic work satisfaction
and emotional intelligence and turnover intentions.
6. Examine if there are significant differences in Emotional Intelligence,
Workplace Spirituality, Employee Engagement, Organizational Commitment,

Turnover Intentions, and Intrinsic Work Satisfaction of the employees based

on their gender, marital status, educational qualification, and position.

Variable
Emotional Intelligence
Workplace Spirituality
Organizational
Commitment
Intrinsic Work Satisfaction
Employee Engagement
Turnover Intention

Mean
Gender Marital Status Qualification Position
5.4556
5.458
5.4549
5.4508
5.1183
5.1145
5.1147
5.1165
5.3822
5.0896
5.7157
3.9489

5.3823
5.0852
5.7154
3.952

5.3763

5.0836
5.7112
3.9447

5.3707
5.084
5.7103
3.9344

Based on the mean table above, there is no any significant difference between Emotional
Intelligence, Workplace Spirituality, Employee Engagement, Organizational Commitment,
Turnover Intentions, and Intrinsic Work Satisfaction of the employees based on their
gender, marital status, educational qualification, and position.
However, from one way ANOVA test, we have following analysis
Based on Gender, the significant values greater than 0.05 for the variables below are shown
in the table below which shows that there is no any significant differences in the variables.
Emotional Intelligence
Workplace Spirituality
Organizational
Commitment
Intrinsic Work
Satisfaction
Employee
Engagement
Turnover Intention

0.99
0.188
0.269
0.493
0.436
0.457

Similarly, based on Marital Status also there is no significant difference between the
variable.
However, based on the position is shown in the table below. It shows that it is less than the
threshold 0.05. We can thus deduce that there is significant difference in the variables on
the basis of their position.
There is no significant difference in Organizational commitment, turnover intentions on the
basis of employee position as its significant value is greater than 0.05.