Emotional intelligence as a predictor of employees' career adaptability

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 90-97

  Coetzee, Melinde ^a   Harry, Nisha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Career adaptability; Cognitive affective adaptive functioning; Emotional intelligence; Psychosocial meta capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891949030     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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