Job offers of multi-national accounting firms: The effects of emotional intelligence, extra-curricular activities, and academic performance

Accounting Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-93

  Ming Chia, Yew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotional intelligence; interviews; job offers; soft skill competencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248343302     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0693928042000229707     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Allen, R. E., and Keaveny, T. J., 1980. The relative effectiveness of alternative job sources. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 16: 18–32.
2. American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. 1992. Academic Preparation to Become a Certified Public Accountant, New York: AICPA.
3. Arvey, R. D., 1998. “ Emotionality and job performance: implications for personnel selection ”. In Research in Personnel and Human Resource Management, Edited by: Ferris, G. R., 103–147. CT: JAI Press Inc. in
4. Bandura, A., 1986. Social Foundations of Thought and Action, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
5. Barber, A. E., 1994. Job search activities: an examination of changes over time. Personnel Psychology, 47: 739–766.
6. Bar-On, R., 1997. Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory: Technical Manual, Toronto, ON: Multi-Health Systems.
7. Bar-On, R., 2000. Emotional expression and implications for occupational stress; an application of the Emotion Quotient Inventory (EQ-i). Personality and Individual Differences, 28: 1107–1118.
8. Becker, T., 2003. Is emotional intelligence a viable concept?. The Academy of Management Review, 28 (2): 192–195.
9. Beehr, T., 1985. “ Organizational stress and employee effectiveness ”. In Human Stress and Cognition in Organizations, Edited by: Beehr, T., and Bhagat, R., 57–81. New York: John Wiley & Sons. in
10. Brasher, E. E., and Chen, P. Y., 1999. Evaluation of success criteria in job search: a process perspective. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72: 57–70.
11. Breaugh, J. A., 1981. Relationships between recruiting sources and employee performance, absenteeism and work attitudes. Academy of Management Journal, 24: 142–147.
12. Caplan, R. D., 1989. Job seeking, reemployment, and mental health: a randomized field experiment in coping with job loss. Journal of Applied Psychology, 74: 759–769.
13. Caudron, S., 1999. The hard case for soft skills. Workforce, 78 (7), July): 60–66.
14. Chapel, C., 2001. Calling for leaders. The Prospective Accountant, September/October: 31–35.
15. Child, D., 1970. The Essentials of Factor Analysis, London: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
16. Chow, C. Y., 2002. Job seekers looking for an easy life, say bosses. South China Morning Post, 10 October (Thursday): p. 6
17. Ciarrochi, J. V., 2000. A critical evaluation of the emotional intelligence construct. Personality and Individual Differences, 28: 539–561.
18. Cooper, R. K., and Sawaf, A., 1997. Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations, New York: Grosset/Putnam.
19. Dawda, R., and Hart, S. D., 2000. Assessing emotional intelligence: reliability and validity of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) in university students. Personality and Individual Differences, 28: 797–812.
20. Dole, C., and Schroeder, R. G., 2001. The impact of various factors on the personality, job satisfaction and turnover intentions of professional accountants. Managerial Auditing Journal, 16: 234–245.
21. Dulewicz, V., and Higgs, M., 2000a. EIQ-Managerial User Guide, Windsor: NFER-Nelson.
22. Dulewicz, V., and Higgs, M., 2000b. Emotional intelligence: a review and evaluation study. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 15 (4): 341–368.
23. Dyer, L., 1973. Job search success of middle-aged managers and engineers. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 26: 969–979.
24. Fox, S., and Spector, P. E., 2000. Relations of emotional intelligence, partial intelligence, general intelligence, and trait affectivity with interview outcomes: it's not all just ‘G’. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 21 (Special Issue): 203–220.
25. Goleman, D., 1995. Emotional Intelligence, New York: Bantam Books.
26. Goleman, D., 1998. Working with Emotional Intelligence, New York: Bantam Books.
27. Harvey, L., 1997. Graduates' Work: Organisational Change and Students Attributes, Birmingham: The University of Central England–Centre for Research into Quality.
28. Jordan, P. L., 2003. The case for emotional intelligence in organizational research. The Academy of Management Review, 28 (2): 195–197.
29. Kaiser, H. F., and Rice, J., 1974. Little Jiffy, Mark IV. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 34 (1): 111–117.
30. Kavanagh, D. J., and Bower, G. H., 1985. Mood and self-efficacy: impact of joy and sadness on perceived capabilities. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 9: 507–525.
31. Kerlinger, F. N., 1964. Foundations of Behavioral Research, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
32. Kirch, K. P., 2001. The benefits of emotional intelligence in accounting firms. The CPA Journal, 71 (8) August: 60–61.
33. Lewis, T. D., 1983. What the academic advisor needs to know about job placement. Journal of Accounting Education, 1: 135–142. (Fall)
34. Luthans, F., 2002. Positive organizational behavior: developing and managing psychological strengths for performance improvement. Academy of Management Executive, 16 (1): 57–76.
35. Macan, T. H., and Dipboye, R. L., 1990. The relationship of interviewers' preinterview impressions to selection and recruitment outcomes. Personnel Psychology, 43: 745–768.
36. Marsella, A. J., 1994. The measurement of emotional reactions to work; conceptual, methodological and research issues. Work and Stress, 8: 153–176.
37. Matthews, G., 2003. Development of emotional intelligence: a skeptical–but not dismissive–perspective. Human Development, 46: 109–114.
38. Maupin, R. J., and Lehman, C. R., 1994. Talking heads: stereotypes, status, sex-roles and satisfaction of female and male auditors. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 19 (4/5): 427–437.
39. Mayer, J. D., 1999. Emotional intelligence meets the traditional standards of an intelligence. Intelligence, 27: 267–299.
40. Moncada, S. M., and Sanders, J. C., 1999. Perceptions in the recruiting process. The CPA Journal, 69 (1): 38–41. January
41. Motowidlo, S., 1986. “ Occupational stress: its causes and consequences ”. In Journal of Applied Psychology Vol. 71, 618–629.
42. Neter, J., 1985. Applied Linear Statistical Models, Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin Inc.
43. Newsome, S., 2000. Assessing the predictive validity of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 29: 1005–1016.
44. Norusis, M. J., 1988. SPSS/PC + Advanced Statistics v2.0: For the IBM PC/XT/AT and PS2, Chicago, IL: SPSS Inc.
45. Nunnally, J. C., 1978. Psychometric Theory, New York: McGraw-Hill.
46. Pasewark, W. R., 1988. Empirical evidence on the association between characteristics of graduating accounting students and recruiting decisions of accounting employers. Issues in Accounting Education, 3: 388–401. (Fall)
47. Quy, N. H., 1999. Emotional capability, emotional intelligence, and radical change. Academy of Management Review, 24: 325–345.
48. Robertson, L. T., and Smith, M., 2001. Personnel selection. Journal of Occupational & Organizational Psychology, 74 (4): 441–472.
49. Rosenfeld, C., 1975. Job seeking methods used by American workers. Monthly Labor Review, 98: 39–42.
50. Rynes, S. L., and Miller, H. E., 1983. Recruiter and job influences on candidates for employment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 68: 147–154.
51. Salovey, P., and Mayer, J. D., 1989/1990. Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 9: 185–211.
52. Salovey, P., and Shiyter, D. J., 1997. Emotional Development and Emotional Intelligence: Educational Implications, New York: Basic Books.
53. Steiner, C., 1997. Achieving Emotional Literacy, London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
54. Steffy, B. D., 1989. Antecedents and consequences of job search behaviors. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 35: 254–269.
55. Tapia, M., 2001. Measuring emotional intelligence. Psychological Reports, 88 (2): 353–364.
56. Van Harrison, R., 1985. “ The person-environment fit model and the study of job stress ”. In Human Stress and Cognition in Organizations, Edited by: Beehr, T., and Bhagat, R., 23–55. New York: John Wiley and Sons. in
57. Walsh, A., 1989. Statistics for the Social Sciences: With Computer Applications, New York: Harper and Row Publishers.
58. Woodruffe, C., 2001. Promotional intelligence. People Management, 7 (1) January: 26–29.