An Investigation of the Relationship between Cultural Intelligence and Organizational Commitment within Office Workers of Zahedan Department of Education

The purpose of the present study has been to investigate the relationship between cultural intelligence and organizational commitment. The method used here is of a correlation type. Population consists of 300 office workers of Zahedan Department of Education, from which, based on Morgan model, 170 were selected using a class-random method. Steers and Porter's questionnaires of cultural intelligence and organizational commitment were used in this research. Reliability of these two questionnaires was assessed to be 87% and 71%, respectively. The obtained data were then analyzed using statistical tools such as the mean, Pearson Correlation, Independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, and regression. The obtained results are as follows: There is a significant positive relationship between cultural intelligence and its different dimensions and organizational commitment of the workers. It was shown through step-by-step regression that among the four dimensions of cultural intelligence knowledge was the strongest predictor of organizational commitment

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