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Abstract
The current research investigated the relationships between social intelligence, managerial networking, and career success. The research examined the role of some human capital, organizational, demographic as well as managerial networking variables in predicting career success compared to the role of social intelligence. This comparison was also employed in predicting managerial networking behavior. In addition, the research inspected the role of gender in moderating the relationship between managerial networking and career success.
Top and middle level managers in the private service sector, namely consulting, training and marketing services firms were the focus of the study. Success in these professions is highly dependent on the quality of interactions between service providers and customers. Such professions rely on their linkages and networks with others to expand their resources and customer base. Correlation and stepwise regression analyses were carried out to examine the hypothesized relationships. Moreover, moderated multiple regression was used to test the moderator variable.
The research results indicated significant correlations between social intelligence and both managerial networking and subjective career success. The results also exhibited significant relationships between types of managerial networking and objective and subjective career success. However, the findings showed that aspects of human capital and organization-related variables predicted objective career success. On the other hand, social intelligence predicted several managerial networking types.
Furthermore, gender did not moderate the relationship between networking behavior and managers’ rate of advancement. According to the findings, there is no difference in such a relationship for men than it is for women. Gender yet moderated the relationship between managerial networking and subjective career success. Male managers tend to feel more satisfied with their careers because of their networking behavior compared to the females. The study includes constructive discussion on the findings, as well as its practical implications and suggestions for future research.