scholarly journals Examining the Significance of General Indian English and Soft Skills: An Employability Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Usman Khan ◽  
Syed Abid Zaki ◽  
Abu Rehan ◽  
Mirza Adam ◽  
Shaweez Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Spoken English ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Short Course ◽  
Management Leadership ◽  
Students Attitudes

The Corporate sector has witnessed a drastic change in the last few decades around the world and India is no exception to it. Ever since the proliferation of globalization, inter-state business has grown up like never before. Consequently, multinational companies are gradually taking over the local businesses, which created a paradigm shift in the recruitment processes of companies to meet the demands of the job market. Earlier, people used to get recruited merely on the basis of their job-specific skills called Hard Skills. Today, employers need candidates who can communicate well in English as this language serves as the lingua franca, i.e. a common language of communication among employees of different regional and linguistic backgrounds. Moreover, particular preference is given to the candidates who possess certain necessary skills in addition to hard skills such as communication skill, time management, leadership, adaptability, team work and so on. These skills are known as soft skills. Thus, young job aspirants who can speak fluently and intelligibly in English and possess soft skills get an edge not only during the recruitment process but also during the job. In the above-discussed context, this paper attempts to carry out a critical analysis of teaching General Indian English and soft skills for generating employability among Indian job. To test the same an activity-based study was conducted with a group of 20 undergraduate students which consisted of pre-training and a post-training test. The analysis of the results showed positive changes in students’ attitudes and confidence after they undergo soft skills activities as well as spoken English lessons in General Indian English. Thus, this study suggests the integration of a paper on GIE and soft skills across all disciplines at undergraduate level or a short course on the same.

scholarly journals UPAYA PENGEMBANGAN SOFT SKILL SISWA SMA MELALUI PRAMUKA

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-124
Author(s):  
Dwi Aprilia Wati ◽  
Sigit Pranawa ◽  
Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Management Leadership

Penelitian ini mengkaji upaya pengembangan soft skill siswa SMA melalui kegiatan pramuka. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif yang menggunakan teori fungsionalisme struktural dari Talcott Parsons dengan sistem AGIL, yaitu Adaptation, Goal Attainment, Integration, dan Latency sebagai dasar analisis data. Partisipan penelitian adalah 24 siswa dan 1 pembina pramuka di sebuah SMA Negeri di Kabupaten Karanganyar, Jawa Tengah. Data dikumpulkan melalui observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kegiatan pramuka dapat membantu mengembangkan soft skill siswa terutama kemampuan sosial dan kemampuan personal. Kemampuan sosial terdiri dari communication skill, relationship building, dan team work, sedangkan kemampuan personal terdiri dari time management, leadership skill, dan transforming character (percaya diri, tanggung jawab, mandiri, kreatif, cinta alam, dan berjiwa sosial). Kedua kemampuan soft skill dikembangkan melalui partisipasi siswa dalam kegiatan Pramuka dan keanggotaan siswa sebagai Dewan Ambalan Pramuka.This study examines efforts to develop soft skills for high school students through scouting activities. This research is a qualitative descriptive study that uses Talcott Parsons’ structural functionalism theory with the AGIL system, namely Adaptation, Goal Attainment, Integration, and Latency as the basis for data analysis. Research participants were 24 students and one scout coach in a public high school in Kabupaten Karanganyar, Jawa Tengah. Data were collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results showed that scouting activities could help develop students' soft skills, especially social skills and personal abilities. Social skills consist of communication skills, relationship building, and team work, while personal abilities consist of time management, leadership skills, and transforming character (self-confidence, responsibility, independence, creativity, love of nature, and social spirit). Both soft skill abilities are developed through student participation in scouting activities and student membership as Scouting Council.

scholarly journals Analisis Kebiasaan Belajar Mahasiswa yang Aktif Organisasi Maupun Bekerja dengan IPK Cumlaude di Perguruan Tinggi Jakarta dan Depok

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 532
Author(s):  
Fery Citra Febriyanto ◽  
Nisak Ruwah Ibnatur Husnul
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Good Time ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Interview Guide ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Active Organization

This study aims to determine the study habits of students who are active in organizations and works with a GPA of 3.75 (cumlaude) in universities in Jakarta and Depok. The research method used a descriptive qualitative. The subjects of this research were 12 students, i.e. four students were each from the UI, UNJ, AL-Azhar and UNPAM campuses. The selection of sources was categorized as students having a GPA of 3.75 while working or being active in organizations. The instrument used was an interview guide validated by a reviewer and the data collection technique was through interviews. The data analysis technique used source triangulation technique. The results of the study founded that students who studied while working or participating in an organization with a GPA of 3.75 had learning habits such as the followings: 1) Students must have good time management in utilizing soft skills and hard skills by setting a priority scale in the learning process, active organization and work. 2) Students must create habits with certain patterns for the goals to be achieved, by adjusting each individual's ability to study, organize and work. 3) Students must know the strengths and weaknesses of each to find out what supports and hinders the learning process, organization or work.

Management Leadership and Employee Satisfaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Amber Joy De Armond Hillard
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Leadership Strategies ◽  
Employee Job Satisfaction ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Management Leadership ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Survey Questionnaires

The study reported in this article examines the relationship between management leadership and employee job satisfaction. Based on 30 participants, self-report survey questionnaires are used for data collection. Results show that a significant, moderate, and positive correlation (ρ = .73, p = .000) exists between employees' ratings of their managers' leadership skills and employees' job satisfaction. A significant relationship (ρ = .39, p = .030) exists between employees' ratings of importance of leadership strategies at civilian personnel advisory centers and job satisfaction of general schedule employees. Employees' job satisfaction is observed to be significantly positively correlated with the employees' rating of management leadership. The work highlights the importance of adequate training in soft skills as well as hard skills leaders.

scholarly journals Do you Like My English? Thai Students’ Attitudes towards Five Different Asian Accents

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rusma Kalra ◽  
Chayada Thanavisuth
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Indian English ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Thai Students ◽  
Native Speakers Of English ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Accented English ◽  
Japanese English

This research aims to explore how Thai speakers of English perceive their Asian peers’ accented English and evaluate the acceptability of their accents namely Burmese English, Chinese English, Indian English, Japanese English, and Vietnamese English. The participants were eighty undergraduate students at an International University in Thailand where English is used as a medium of instruction. They were asked to listen to five recorded speech extracts taken from five different intermediate-level reading passages. A triangulated study is used to examine the data from different angle including a questionnaire survey in a Likert-type scale and a follow-up semi-structured interview. The Index of Item Objective Congruence (IOC) and Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient were also applied to assure the content validity of the research methodology. The results in this study indicated that Thai student participants were easily able to identify that five speakers were all non-native speakers of English. The majority preferred Indian accented English to other accented Englishes. Most participants showed negative attitudes towards Japanese and Burmese accented English. It is somewhat conclusive that the participants still believe that a native-like accent is overvalued their perceived English accents.

scholarly journals Organizing Events as a Tool to Develop Marketing Skills – the atUAliza.te Event Case Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Estima ◽  
Joaquim Marques
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Public Speaking ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Planning Team ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Marketing Education ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Management Leadership

Marketing education literature is prolific in research dedicated to the best methodologies to provide higher education students with the knowledge as well as the soft and hard skills needed for their future careers as marketing experts. This article presents an experiment developed in a marketing degree, that took place outside the classroom over the last twelve years. The experiment consists on the organization of an annual marketing conference organized by a team of students that are supervised by a marketing teacher. It is a two-day event that brings together the best speakers from the market and academia and is targeted for both marketing students and professionals. The participation of students as part of the organizing team is voluntary and no assessment is performed by any course of the degree. These students refer the development of skills such as improving negotiation skills, networking, public speaking skills, organization, planning, team management, conflict management, leadership, time management, among others, as an added value for there careers.

scholarly journals Eventuality of Application of SRH-Technologies Under the Conditions of Education's Digital Transformation

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-92
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Evgenevna Kuznetsova ◽  
Marina Evgenevna Ivanova ◽  
Elena Nikolaevna Starkova
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Organization Of Work ◽  
Reading Groups ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Effective Organization ◽  
Oriented Activity

The purpose of the study is to provide a methodological basis for the development and application of an innovative general pedagogical technology (called by the authors SRH-technology) of organizing the pedagogical process at a university, aimed at increasing the effectiveness of teaching bachelors through the use of innovative forms – research studies, networking with the work of students in reading groups, hackathon and foresight sessions aimed at developing hard-skills and soft-skills among undergraduate students. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the development of an innovative general pedagogical technology for teaching undergraduate students (called by the authors SRH-technology), based on a combination of personality-oriented, activity-based and systemic approaches. As a result, the effectiveness of the use of SRH technology in the educational process has been proved, and the main recommendations for the effective organization of work with students in the framework of the listed forms of classes are given.

scholarly journals ASSESSING AND DEVELOPING THE INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM WORK ATTRIBUTE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve Hoffart ◽  
Katherine Gibbard ◽  
Thomas O'Neill ◽  
Anders Nygren ◽  
William Rosehart
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Student Development ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
American University ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
The Individual

Working effectively in teams is an essential skill that must be developed over the course of an engineering degree program. However, soft skills such as effective team behaviours can be difficult to assess and develop in students. Accordingly, the paper outlines our efforts to operationalize the Individual and Team Work attribute with the intention of outlining best practices in assessing, tracking, and enhancing the graduate attribute for both student development and accreditation purposes.A survey comprised of 40 Likert-scale items and 3 open-ended response questions was administered to all undergraduate students at a large North American university. The survey resulted in key findings, including that students rated their team work competencies significantly lower than they rated the perceived importance of those competencies for success in the workplace. Additionally, females reported significantly lower satisfaction and support in their team experiences than male students. These findings and others resulted in 12 evidence-based recommendations to strategically support the Individual and Team Work attribute.

scholarly journals THE IMPORTANCE OF "SOFT SKILLS" IN THE FORMATION OF SPECIALISTS’ MANAGERIAL COMPETENCE IN HUMAN SAFETY FIELD

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 122-127
Author(s):  
O. Povstyn ◽  
M. Kozyar
Keyword(s):  
Social Competence ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Achievement Goals ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
The Social ◽  
Managerial Competence

The article presents the problem of forming the managerial competence of specialists in the field of human security. Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the concepts of "competence", "managerial competence," social competence ", the content of the concepts of" soft skills "," hard skills ". The set of basic knowledge necessary for the development of “soft skills” in forming the managerial competence of future specialists in the field of human security is analyzed. On the basis of the analysis of the psychological and pedagogical literature, it is determined that the structure of managerial competence is a complex integrated dynamic formation, containing worldview, technological, cognitive, psychological, personal, professional and proper management aspects. The essential characteristics of the competencies of the modern leader are presented: strategic, social, functional, managerial, communicative, professional. Soft skills include leadership skills, teamwork skills, teaching skills, negotiating skills, conflict resolution, goal setting and achievement goals, time management of personal and subordinate time, purposefulness, presentation skills, public speaking effective communication skills, stress resistance, creativity and more. The assumption is made that the presence of the listed skills and competences forms the “social competence” of the future manager. It is determined that social competence, along with strategic, functional, managerial, communicative and professional, is one of the defining competency characteristics of the manager, and its essential features give grounds for defining it as basic in the formation of the managerial competence of human security professionals. It is proved that the quality and efficiency of management activities of specialists in the field of human security depend on the degree of mastery of "social competence" and so-called "flexible competencies".

INNOVATION IN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS OF UZBEKSITAN BANKS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 46-53
Author(s):  
Azamat Nurmatov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
The Impact

Recently, the importance of training and development as a part of Human Resource Management has developed significantly. Numerous companies concur that training and development is fundamental to organizational improvement and success cycle. On the other hand, the impact of training and development is thought little of in Central-Asian countries.Many companies in Uzbekistan have been putting center on hard skills of workers amid training and development sessions and dismissing the significance of soft skills. This article finds the value of soft skills of bank supervisors and officers and endeavors to suggest the usage of soft skills such as communication skills, emotional intelligence, time management and teamwork. Keywords: Human resource management, training and development, soft skills, hard skills, as communication skills, emotional intelligence, time management, teamwork, banks

What Are Required Basically by Users of a Hotel Internship Programme: Hard-skills or Soft-skills?

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 505-521
Author(s):  
Anusorn Kunanusorn
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Chiang Mai ◽  
Problem Solving Skills ◽  
Hard Skills ◽  
Design Learning

What Are Required Basically by Users of a Hotel Internship Programme: Hard-Skills or Soft-Skills?   ABSTRACT This research aimed to identify the skills that internship students are required to have in the hotel industry. To achieve these objectives, this research used questionnaires and interviews to collect data from 44 tourism businesses. Interviewings and questionnaires were obtained from businesses in Bali, Indonesia and Chiang Mai, Thailand which are both tourism attraction locations. The analysis method used for this research was descriptive analysis. The results showed that soft-skills were preferred to hard-skills. The preferred soft- skills were intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills, self-motivation skills, autonomous learning skills, time management skills, problem-solving skills, creativity skills, and adaptability skills. These soft-skills were not well acquired, so educational institutions need to design learning programmes that allow students to live with these competencies. The current collaboration needs to be reviewed to establish a common goal and benefits for both parties regarding the development of soft-skills. There would be some other languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean which are necessary that we did not consider in this study but very important in tourism nowadays and future. Keywords: Internship, Soft-skills, Hard-skills  

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