Abstract

Based on the importance of competitiveness among today global market, the companies need to focus more on the leadership concepts as main source of Employees satisfaction. During recent years, Tehran Cement’s employees experienced many different top managers. The changing of top level manager caused changing lower level manager as well, which make employees uncomfortable with new situation as well as new leader characteristic and new organizational climate. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of leadership behavior and emotional intelligence on job satisfaction. In addition, it determines which interaction of independent variables will yield the higher level of job satisfaction. Meanwhile, emotional intelligence, and interaction of initiating structure leadership behavior and emotional intelligence were significantly related to extrinsic job satisfaction. Given the significant influence of the predictors mentioned above, organizations should focus on improving the quality of the supportive relationships between employee and both leader and organization.