Different intelligences’ role in overcoming the differences in employee value system

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to present the findings of the research about the role of different intelligences in overcoming the differences in employee value system as a source of success.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on their previous research, the authors used desk and informal field research, the Dialectical Systems Theory and its Law of Requisite Holism.

Findings

The integration of one’s personal development with one’s individual intelligence influences human value systems. Knowledge and developing of various types of intelligence matter: it lets individuals develop faster, in the long run. The higher one’s level of intelligence is, the easier one finds it to face problems or experience. Thus, one is becoming a mature personality, who can overcome extreme alternatives to the briefed human values. This process can also receive meaningful support from the exercise of social responsibility, which is one’s responsibility for one’s impacts on society, i.e. people and nature. Success of the process depends on “personal requisite holism”. The top managers need significantly more emotional and social competences than the others.

Research limitations/implications

The topic is researched with qualitative analysis in desk and informal field research. Quantitative methodological approach took place in the authors’ cited previous publications.

Practical implications

Work distribution makes the leaders and subordinates differ in prevailing values, too. Mastering of these differences will support business success, survival of jobs included and well-being of coworkers from both groups. Application of the cognitive, emotional and spiritual intelligences might help the organization meet this need. The fourth – physical intelligence – supports ensuring the psychological well-being at work; from this, other mentioned intelligences have been developed. Mastering of these differences can also receive support from methods of creative cooperation, social responsibility and personal requisite holism; the authors have reported about these elsewhere, and only point to these in this study.

Social implications

The more holistic intelligences system generates a more socially responsible society.

Originality/value

No similar concept is offered in the available literature.

Citation

Veingerl Čič, Ž., Mulej, M. and Šarotar Žižek, S. (2018), "Different intelligences’ role in overcoming the differences in employee value system", Kybernetes, Vol. 47 No. 2, pp. 343-358. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-06-2017-0200