The Interaction Of Self-efficacy And Emotional Intelligence For Enhancing Work Effort And Career Satisfaction

Employee's realization in career seems to be one of the most important aspects of the professional growth.Career success is not only the individuals concern,as the employees personal success may also contribute to the organizational success.Moreover,perceptions of experiencing the career success may lead to significantly positive outcomes and result in other parts of life,influencing happiness,life satisfaction,and longevity.Historical interest in career success topic mostly focuses on objective career success,which can be evaluated by other people,for instance,the number of promotions in a career.Nevertheless,there is an increasing importance on the evaluation of subjective career success(career satisfaction),that captures personal subjective opinions about own career achievements.For developing effective working environment,it is necessary to investigate the specific mechanisms of developing career satisfaction.The choice of the Russian Federation as a site for the current research is explained by its complex history.For the last three decades,the country has experienced various economic and political changes.The Russian rapid historical development caused the significant changes in the Russian people mindset.Accordingly,two different work forces exist in the country today: those who spent most of the working time in the Soviet Union system and those who entered the work force in the last twenty-five years.Thus,due to many historical and social reasons,Russia and Russian employees remain very attractive for the research studies.The main aim of the study was to explore the effect of the Russian organizations employees' self-efficacy on their career satisfaction.The study also aimed at investigation the impact of perceived role of self-efficacy on shaping career satisfaction by paying particular heed on its association with the mediating role played by work effort and moderating effects played by emotional intelligence and gender.The study had the following objectives: empirically test the relationship between self-efficacy,work effort,career satisfaction,and emotional intelligence,examine the correlation between self-efficacy and work effort,determine the effect of self-efficacy offering to the employees' career satisfaction,explore the role work effort leaves on the employees' career satisfaction,study the correlation between emotional intelligence and work effort,and explore the role of emotional intelligence have on career satisfaction.The study also focused on investigating the effect of mediating variable work effort and moderating variables emotional intelligence and gender have on the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.Three distinctive studies had been performed in this dissertation research.The first research aimed to explain the mediating role of work effort on the relationship between self-efficacy and career satisfaction.Along with investigating the impact of work effort,the first research also descriptively analyzed the key variables and correlations among them.The second research focused on investigating the moderating role of emotional intelligence.The descriptive and correlation analyses had been also performed in this chapter.The third part constituted two separate researches.The first part was focused on determining the moderating role of gender on the relationship between work effort and career satisfaction.The second one was an exploratory research about the gender's moderation function upon the relationship between self-efficacy and career satisfaction.The statistical analysis had been performed using SPSS software package.The results had been presented and then discussed comprehensively.This research has opted questionnaire survey method to gather empirical data.Following convenience sampling method data has been collected in May and June 2016 from the Russian male and female employees working in various organizations of Russia.The institutions were selected on the convenience basis and the employees within them were chosen on the basis of simple random sampling.The questionnaire was translated into Russian and then retranslated into English to verify the translations.The questionnaire instrument items of self-efficacy,work effort,career satisfaction,and emotional intelligence were adapted from previous validated published studies.Of forty-three questions,six were related to demographics,participants' gender was self-reported and coded.Participants were asked to evaluate their agreement with the statements using a seven-point Likert scale.From the results,there was found a positive correlation between self-efficacy and career satisfaction among the Russian employees.The study found out that work effort provided a mediating role between self-efficacy and career satisfaction.The results also proved that emotional intelligence had a moderating role on both the positive relationship between self-efficacy and work effort,and the positive relationship between self-efficacy and career satisfaction.Thus,the positive relationship between self-efficacy and work effort is strengthened with the increase of emotional intelligence.Accordingly,the positive relationship between self-efficacy and career satisfaction is strengthened with the increase of emotional intelligence.The study adds to the literature by highlighting the importance of self-efficacy and career satisfaction in the European population and explaining the partial mediating role of work effort in this relationship in the sample of the Russian employees.It also provides the insightful literature review on the topic,which presents the evolution in studying and its popular trends in the world.The further attention may be paid to the moderating role of work effort in the current relationship.Moreover,the present study deepens the understanding of career satisfaction factors in the Russian context.The results contribute significantly to the existing knowledge of career by revealing the moderating effect of emotional intelligence on both the relationship between self-efficacy and work effort,and the relationship between self-efficacy and career satisfaction.The research not only shows that “self-efficacy-work effort” and “self-efficacy-career satisfaction” links among the Russian employees can be moderated by emotional intelligence,but also suggests that scholars may need to study other moderators to grasp fully the career satisfaction phenomenon.In spite of the fact,that the moderating effect of gender was not found,it suggests that scholars may consider other demographic characteristics.Age,marital status,education level,job tenure or average monthly income can be examined to be a better predictor of career satisfaction.Creating the environment where managers are eager to know the employees satisfaction level and motivation seems to be one of the steps for a better management.This thesis not only helps the further investigation into antecedents and consequences of career satisfaction,but also highlights the importance of different theoretical models exploration for studying various aspects of career success.The results of the current study should be of interest to researchers studying the phenomenon of employees' career satisfaction in Russia and other countries.The topic is not only of interest to theory but also to the business community,as more and more international companies open their representative offices in the Russian Federation.Key insights,results,implications,recommendations for future research,and implications are discussed.