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Career commitment refers to identification with and involvement in one’s occupation (Mueller et al., 1992, p. 212) and is characterized by the development of and commitment to career goals (Colarelli and Bishop, 1990). In brief, it refers to one’s motivation to work in a chosen vocation (Hall, 1971). People who are committed to their careers should experience more subjective career success (e.g. have more positive feelings for the career) than those who are less committed. Past studies, for example, have found that employees who commit to a job or career tend to develop attitudes consistent with that commitment (e.g. Carson et al., 1999; Kiesler, 1971). In a study of the influence of career commitment and organizational commitment on work-related outcomes, Carson et al. (1999) found medical librarians high on career commitment to have higher career satisfaction than those low on career commitment. In addition, Lee et al. (2000) in their meta-analytic study of occupational commitment fo...

Problem Statement Understanding what makes the most effective leaders in an organization is very important in today’s complex business environment. Organizations must identify and develop persons that have high leadership potential to stay viable. The importance of emotional intelligence has only recently become widely salient in the quest to identify high potential leaders. The recent realization of the usability of EI to identify leaders has left a gap between research and practice. With a limited amount of research into the subject there is a need for a study that evaluates the effect of EI on career success. Research Questions There are two research questions being investigated in this study. Research question one (R1) is: What is the distribution of emotional intelligence scores for a population with high intelligence quotients? Research question two (R2) is: What is the relationship between emotional intelligence and career success? Significance This study is important because it...