Impact of Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence on Career Success

• Main Authors: Yung-Yu Shih, 施永裕
• Other Authors: Tzu-Ming Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77699650214044296177

博士 === 國立中央大學 === 資訊管理研究所 === 98 === One of the most important long-term goals for people in workplace is to have a career success. Having a career success makes people satisfied in terms of social and economic needs. Especially for the professionals, on the one hand, the high turnover rate caused by competitive and stressful working environment seems to imply the successful career is very hard to reach. On the other hand, the presence of successful professionals does justify the path to success is indeed there. To be successful in career, what are the key factors which will significantly influence the career success? To answer the question, this study conducted a two-stage survey. At the first stage, this study compared MAAS and KIMS mindfulness questionnaire and decided to adopt MAAS scale for the higher score in reliability analysis. At the second stage, 434 executives, MIS professionals and members of Institute of Taiwan Project Management were invited to participate in this survey for investigating whether mindfulness and emotional intelligence will affect career success. The research result shown that mindfulness and emotional intelligence have a positive effect on career success. With the relatively low adjust R square in regression analysis, it implies that there are still many other factors not identified in this study and the mindfulness and emotional intelligence can only explain partial variance of career success. Statistically, only emotional intelligence has significant impact on the career success. Further analyzing the four sub-dimensions of emotional intelligence, with statistical significance, this study found that relationship management has no impact on all indicators of career success; self-aware has positive impact on the subjective career satisfaction; social aware has positive impact on objective promotion speed and average annual income, and self-management has positive impact on all indicators of career success. It is concluded that if the professionals can strengthen their mindfulness and emotional intelligence, the possibility of making success in career will be significantly increased.