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The Contribution of Emotional Intelligence and Occupational Self Efficacy on Organizational Commitment of Insurance Agents in
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Organizational commitment is employee’s behavior relating to trust and strong acceptance of goals that include an element of loyalty and job involvement. Some of the factors that can increase organizational commitment are emotional intelligence and occupational self-efficacy. Emotional intelligence is ability a person controls and manages the feelings of himself and others. While occupational self - efficacy is an individual belief about the ability and competence in displaying good performance on various types of work. The purpose of this research is to test empirically the contribution of emotional intelligence and occupational self-efficacy to organizational commitment of insurance agents. This research is a quantitative research. The sample in this study were130 respondents to the 60 men and 70 women aged 18-56 years. Hypothesis test using multiple linear regression technique which yields a significance value of 0,000 (≤ 0,005). The result of this study shows the accepted hypothesis, which shows that there is a very significant contribution between emotional intelligence and occupational self-efficacy on organizational commitment of insurance agents in PT.Prudential Life Assurance.
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