fa Investigating the Influence of Emotional-Social Competencies on the Mental Health of the Staff; Case study: Iran’s Dairy Industry تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <p style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Garamond&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><font color="#000000">Background and purpose</font></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Garamond&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><font color="#000000">: Managers&rsquo; competencies leave a decisive effect on the mental health of staff. The present research intends to investigate the influence of emotional-social competencies on the mental health of the staff. </font><b><font color="#000000">Method: </font></b><font color="#000000">the current research is practical in its purpose and correlative regarding data gathering. The statistical community included all the staff of Pegah Company in District 3, which were 221 persons selected through simple random sampling. The assessment tools of this study were standard Boyatzis questionnaire for emotional-social competencies of managers from the staff&rsquo;s point of view and Goldberg general health questionnaire for the mental health of the staff. The validity (content, convergent, divergent) and reliability (load factor, composite reliability, and Cronbach&rsquo;s alpha coefficient) were employed which indicated that assessment tools have acceptable validity and reliability; and the gathered data were analyzed by SMART-PLS2 and descriptive statistics with SPSS21. </font><b><font color="#000000">Findings: </font></b><font color="#000000">the outcomes of this study indicate that t coefficient ranges between emotional-social competency, emotional competency and social competency with the mental health which were respectively 7.46, 5.21, and 10.46. Also, the values of </font><i><font color="#000000">R</font>^{<font color="#000000">2</font>}<font color="#000000"> </font></i><font color="#000000">coefficient of determination were 0.71, 0.67, and 0.54 respectively which are desired results. It shows that emotional-social competency, emotional competency and social competency leave positive and significant impacts on mental health. </font><b><font color="#000000">Conclusion: </font></b><font color="#000000">the results of this study attests to the importance of managers&rsquo; emotional-social competency for mental health of staff. Thus, the organizations should employ some strategies for the managers to acquire emotional-social competencies and accordingly improve mental health of staff and attain organizational goals.</font></span></p> <p style="margin: 1em 0px; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Garamond&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><font color="#000000">Background and purpose</font></span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Garamond&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 13pt; mso-bidi-language: FA;"><font color="#000000">: Managers&rsquo; competencies leave a decisive effect on the mental health of staff. The present research intends to investigate the influence of emotional-social competencies on the mental health of the staff. </font><b><font color="#000000">Method: </font></b><font color="#000000">the current research is practical in its purpose and correlative regarding data gathering. The statistical community included all the staff of Pegah Company in District 3, which were 221 persons selected through simple random sampling. The assessment tools of this study were standard Boyatzis questionnaire for emotional-social competencies of managers from the staff&rsquo;s point of view and Goldberg general health questionnaire for the mental health of the staff. The validity (content, convergent, divergent) and reliability (load factor, composite reliability, and Cronbach&rsquo;s alpha coefficient) were employed which indicated that assessment tools have acceptable validity and reliability; and the gathered data were analyzed by SMART-PLS2 and descriptive statistics with SPSS21. </font><b><font color="#000000">Findings: </font></b><font color="#000000">the outcomes of this study indicate that t coefficient ranges between emotional-social competency, emotional competency and social competency with the mental health which were respectively 7.46, 5.21, and 10.46. Also, the values of </font><i><font color="#000000">R</font>^{<font color="#000000">2</font>}<font color="#000000"> </font></i><font color="#000000">coefficient of determination were 0.71, 0.67, and 0.54 respectively which are desired results. It shows that emotional-social competency, emotional competency and social competency leave positive and significant impacts on mental health. </font><b><font color="#000000">Conclusion: </font></b><font color="#000000">the results of this study attests to the importance of managers&rsquo; emotional-social competency for mental health of staff. Thus, the organizations should employ some strategies for the managers to acquire emotional-social competencies and accordingly improve mental health of staff and attain organizational goals.</font></span></p> emotional-social competency, emotional competency, social competency, mental health emotional-social competency, emotional competency, social competency, mental health 359 365 http://ijurm.imo.org.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1406-7&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Amir Hushang Nazar pouri 10031947532846005932 10031947532846005932 No Reza Sepahvand 10031947532846005933 10031947532846005933 No Najmoddin Mousavi 10031947532846005934 10031947532846005934 No Yousef Zarnegarian 10031947532846005935 10031947532846005935 Yes