Role of Career Adaptability over Emotional Intelligence, Self-Efficacy and Leadership Skills: An overview of Path Analysis

Abstract

Performance is the level of attainability which measures how well the desired goals can be achieved. Every business needs good leader for their long run success. Today, effective leadership depends upon how well a leader is able to manage others as well as themselves. Career adaptability is the capacity of the individual to adjust to the changes while balancing over their career roles in order to enhance career development. This paper attempts to analyze how well the employees are able to take up the higher levels jobs and how well they use their leadership skills for enhancing their performance level. For solving the research problem, SEM has been employed which is a blend of factor analysis and multiple regression analysis. The analysis has been continued by conducting second order CFA which has been undertaken in order to validate Career Adapt Abilities scale (The CAAS Portugal Form, 2012). It has been reported that Employees working in the private banks possess more administrative skills as compared to other leadership skills. Administrative skills have the positive but insignificant relationship with Career adaptability and Interpersonal skills, Emotional Intelligence and Self Efficacy have the positive and significant relationship with career adaptability. Education has the positive and significant effect on career adaptability. The results also indicated that as the managerial level increases, career adaptability also increases.