摘要：What virtues and strengths are required for succeeding at work? This research was focused on Finnish top workers (awarded as “the best workers” of their professional fields among colleagues) and their assessments of their virtues and strengths needed for success at work. The data were collected through qualitative interviews. The aim was to decipher what strengths and virtues top workers consider as the most important? According to the research, top workers emphasize the positive and optimistic working attitude and good social relationships at work. However, they evaluated “wisdom and knowledge” as the virtue that characterized them the best. This research approaches the phenomenon from a positive perspective. In addition, the connection between these virtues and wellbeing, happiness, and success at work is discussed. The results contribute new directions for the development of vocational education: how to organize and structure education so that it would support people’s success in working life.
