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Organizational Intelligence and Role Efficacy:An Application Towards Technical Grade Railways Employees


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Concept of organizational intelligence is one of the major components that must be possessed by the modem managers or supervisors in order to manage their subordinates. They use their intellect to achieve organization goal. The aim of this study is evaluation of organizational intelligence in railways technical grade employees and examination of its relationship with employee's role etficacy. This research is an applied research and the research method is correlation type. The participants are some of the employees trom various departments of the railways such as electrical, loco, telecommunication, signal, etc. The main means for collecting data included two questionnaires of the organizational intelligence and role etficacy. Sample were immediate supervisors (65) and their subordinates (105). Result shows that role efficacy is positively and significantly related to organizational intelligence. Higher intelligence group score higher on role efficacy and its dimensions in comparison of low intelligence group. In regression analysis organizational intelligence significantly predicts role etficacy.

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Organizational Intelligence, Role Efficacy, Railway Technical Employees.
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Authors

Archana Upadhyay
Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu Unversity, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
A. P. Singh
Department of Psychology, Banaras Hindu Unversity, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract


Concept of organizational intelligence is one of the major components that must be possessed by the modem managers or supervisors in order to manage their subordinates. They use their intellect to achieve organization goal. The aim of this study is evaluation of organizational intelligence in railways technical grade employees and examination of its relationship with employee's role etficacy. This research is an applied research and the research method is correlation type. The participants are some of the employees trom various departments of the railways such as electrical, loco, telecommunication, signal, etc. The main means for collecting data included two questionnaires of the organizational intelligence and role etficacy. Sample were immediate supervisors (65) and their subordinates (105). Result shows that role efficacy is positively and significantly related to organizational intelligence. Higher intelligence group score higher on role efficacy and its dimensions in comparison of low intelligence group. In regression analysis organizational intelligence significantly predicts role etficacy.

Keywords


Organizational Intelligence, Role Efficacy, Railway Technical Employees.

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