Based on such a deduction that emotional intelligence would have influence upon empowerment, subjective career success and organizational citizenship behavior, this dissertation empirically examined the influence of emotional intelligence upon organiz...
Based on such a deduction that emotional intelligence would have influence upon empowerment, subjective career success and organizational citizenship behavior, this dissertation empirically examined the influence of emotional intelligence upon organizational citizenship behavior via the media of empowerment and subjective career success, with professional soldiers as study subjects. For this, following three study questions were established:
First, ‘What is the relationship among professional soldiers’ emotional intelligence, empowerment, subjective career success and organizational citizenship behavior, respectively?’ Second, ‘Does empowerment have any mediating effects upon the relationship between professional soldiers’ emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior?’ And third, ‘Does subjective career success have any mediating effects upon the relationship between professional soldiers’ emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior?’
In order to get answer to the above study questions, literature examination and empirical research on hypothesis testing were carried out. In order to test the hypothesis, which was established based on study questions and literature examination, from the aspect of professional soldiers’ lifetime, data of 792 soldiers, consisted of soldiers on service under a variety of circumstances, officials enrolled in a training course for career change before discharge from military service and reservists, were collected via a self-report type questionnaire survey. And collected data were analyzed with such analytic techniques as correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and mediating effect analysis using the SPSS 18.0 statistical package.
Based on study findings, professional soldiers’ perceptual levels, their demographic feature-oriented perceptual differences and causal relations among such variables as emotional intelligence (self-emotion appraisal, others' emotion appraisal, regulation of emotion and use of emotion), empowerment (meaning, competence, self-determination and impact), subjective career success (career satisfaction, employability and life satisfaction) and organizational citizenship behavior (altruism, conscientiousness, courtesy, sportsmanship and civic virtue) can be summarized as follows:
First, the order of professional soldiers’ perceptual levels for variables was organizational citizenship behavior, empowerment, emotional intelligence and subjective career success, and all these levels were bigger than the ordinary one. And the biggest was organizational citizenship behavior, which meant loyalty and commitment to organizations, and it is an important characteristic that is required of soldiers. However, employability and life satisfaction were the lowest and therefore professional soldiers’ satisfaction with preparation for career change and lifetime development seemed to be relatively low. Second, the demographic feature-oriented perceptual differences for variables were examined, Outcomes showed that, with regard to the current status, perceptual level of soldiers on service was the highest in most variables and it was followed by those enrolled in a training course for career change and reservists in order, thus presenting the fact that they were experiencing difficulties in their adaptation into society after discharge. With regard to age, the perceptual level of younger soldiers, of those who had master’s degree or doctor’s degree with a high level of education, of those who were in high ranks, and of those who were in specialized or technologic branch of service was higher for variables. Third, professional soldiers’ emotional intelligence had positive influence upon empowerment, subjective career success and organizational citizenship behavior, whereas subjective career success had positive influence upon organizational citizenship behavior. Fourth, empowerment and subjective career success seemed to play a partial mediating role in the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational citizenship behavior, respectively.
Based on study findings and using factors of emotional intelligence, empowerment, subjective career success and organizational citizenship behavior, this study presents following theoretical and practical suggestions that can contribute to the development of military HRD theories and policies, from the aspect of professional soldiers’ lifetime development:
First, in order to examine improvable factors for professional soldiers’ learning achievement, focusing on psychological ones, this study empirically dealt with influential relationship among emotional intelligence, organizational citizenship behavior, empowerment and subjective career success, and therefore extended the discussion on the development of military HRD theories.
Second, by verifying such a hypothesis that emotional intelligence could make organizational citizenship behavior expressed well via the increase of empowerment and subject career success from the aspect of professional soldiers’ lifetime, whether or not they are on-service or in the reserves, this study provides a clue for the development of military HRD theories that can internalize organizational citizenship behavior, a must for soldiers’ exertion of combat power at the time of their service and then their adaptation into occupations after discharge.
Third, by finding out the fact that among the factors of empowerment, professional soldiers perceived impact and self-determination as more important factors than their competence, and thus they devoted themselves to the promotion to high ranks via carrying out a core job of which impact was greater than learning-oriented self-development, this study clarified the weakening cause of learning motives. In addition, since learning-oriented development of competency is more important in the increase of organizational citizenship behavior and subjective career success than impact, in a long-term point of view, this study suggests that learning motives must be recovered by applying the first-training-after-assignment principle more extensively.
Fourth, since the variables discussed in this study are factors that must be focused from the aspect of lifelong learning, this study suggests that the time and resources to support professional soldiers’ career change, which are concentrated on the impending time of their discharge, must be extended to the whole military life, and career change support policies for discharged soldiers must be included in military HRD policies via cooperation between the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, thus carrying out it simultaneously.
Based on the above study findings, this study suggests that military HRD policies, which have been consistently used within the military organization, must be converted into balanced ones which consider military organization’s inside use and individual’s lifetime development simultaneously, in order for it to develop professional soldiers’ emotional intelligence, enhance their learning achievement, thus increasing their empowerment, and internalize organizational citizenship behavior that promotes dedicated participation, via supporting subjective career success. This suggestion is expected to make professional soldiers be able to develop their competency via improving their learning attitudes for themselves and improve their organizational adaptability, thus contributing to their personal development, military cohesion and organizational achievement.