Vocational interests and managerial success

Abstract

The Strong Vocational Interest Blank was administered to 38 managers of shops in a retail bakery chain. The relationship between scores earned on the Strong keys and managerial success, as determined by an independent criterion, was found to be insignificant for all 39 occupational keys and interest maturity, occupational level, and masculinity-femininity. A bake shop manager scoring key was constructed on the basis of responses differentiating the successful from the unsuccessful managers. This key was then cross-validated on a second group of 32 manager trainees and new managers. A biserial correlation of .53 was found between job success and scores on the bake shop manager key. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)