The Relationship between Working Memory Capacity and Executive Skills Among Employees

Aim of the study to investigate the relationship between working memory capacity and executive skills among employees. Working memory capacity is the ability to hold raw information in immediate awareness so that it can be manipulated and transformed into a more useful form (Schneider and McGrew 2012) “Executive function are cognitive skills used to monitor, regulate mood, and behaviour, play and have mental flexibly, especially during complex and goal- tasks. (Miylex et at., 2000; vasterling et al; 2009) Conducted a study on the relationship between working memory capacity and executive skills. The author mentioned that correlation between working memory capacity and executive function constructs was very strong but correlations between these constructs and processing speed were considerably weaker Controlling for working memory capacity or executive skills. The present study aims to identify the relationship between working memory capacity and executive skills among employees.75 samples were collected based on random sampling methods. In order to collect the data regarding working memory capacity digit span test (wechsler 1997) was used and for executive skill, Executive skills Questionnaire (Peg Dawson and Richard Guare 2010) was used to collect the data The research formulates the hypothesis that there will be a significant relationship between working memory capacity and Executive skills. In order to test the hypothesis correlation is used. The result of the concluded that there is a positive and significant relationship between variable (working memory capacity and Executive skills)