Affiliation:
1. Cukurova University, Turkey
Abstract
Social intelligence has been recognized as a remarkable factor affecting individuals' success and performance on the job with intent engagement. This research explores the social intelligence's impact on job engagement of Generation X women entrepreneurs who operate in the TR62 region, covering Adana and Mersin provinces. Business scholars and industry leaders have widely recognized the importance of women's entrepreneurship. Thus, research aimed to shed light on women entrepreneurship in the Turkish business ecosystem. Social intelligence can have a catalyst role on job engagement to advance entrepreneurship skills. As a part of social intelligence, there was a moderate relationship between the social information process and social awareness. Social intelligence had a moderate correlation with emotional and cognitive job engagement. Also, there was a moderate relationship between social information processing and physical job engagement being collaborated with emotional job engagement on account of Generation X women entrepreneurs' active role in a social and business environments.
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