Antecedents of Emotional Intelligence: Perceived Organizational Support Impact on Ambidextrous Behavior of Standalone Business School Faculty

Uma Maheswari Gopinath, Nishad Nawaz, Vijayakumar Gajenderan and Hariswaran Balasubramaniyan
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Uma Maheswari Gopinath: Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Hyderabad 500100, India
Nishad Nawaz: Department of Business Management, College of Business Administration, Kingdom University, Riffa 3903, Bahrain
Vijayakumar Gajenderan: Department of Commerce, Sir Theagaraya College, Chennai 600021, India
Hariswaran Balasubramaniyan: Department of Commerce, Mar Gregorios College of Arts and Science, Chennai 600037, India

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 15, 1-12

Abstract: The present study was designed to examine the significance of emotional intelligence (EI), perceived organizational support (POS), and its impact on organizational ambidexterity of faculty members working with standalone business schools in southern India. The study argues that the moderating effect of emotional intelligence (EI) is significant in the association between perceived organizational support and two antecedents of organizational ambidexterity of faculty members. The research on institutional exploration and exploitation ambidexterity variants highlights vital ways to realize organizational ambidexterity. Very few researchers have investigated organizational ambidexterity in the higher education sector, and no research is available on standalone business school faculty members. The study proposes a novel research framework, and the findings reveal that perceived organizational support is highly influencing two antecedents of organizational ambidexterity. The research also observes a slight moderating effect of emotional intelligence between the association of perceived organizational support and organizational ambidexterity and the positive relationship identified among emotional intelligence, perceived organizational support and organizational ambidexterity.

Keywords: organizational ambidexterity; perceived organizational support; business school faculty; emotional intelligence; moderation analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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