Addressing employability challenges of business graduates in Bangladesh: Evidence from an emerging economy perspective

Uddin, Mahi

doi:10.1177/1038416220986887

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“…Tran 2012;Teng et al 2019;Virtanen and Tynjala 2019). Traditional teaching and learning often involves lectures, class discussions, memorisation, and regurgitation of theoretical course content during tests and examinations (Uddin 2021;Teng et al 2019). The focus is on the teacher and what they do (Mesny et al 2021).…”

Section: Business Schools Teaching and Learning Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As the environment within which companies operate change over time, so will their skill requirements. Fifth, some have argued that the discourse on graduate employability needs to be embedded within the context of the characteristics of the local labour market (Hossain et al 2020;Uddin 2021). Employability studies should, therefore, consider the contextual environment of the local labour market.…”

Section: Significance Of the Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Graduate Employability of Business Students

Mainga

Murphy-Braynen

Moxey

et al. 2022

Administrative Sciences

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The objective of the study was to examine the perceptions of business students on their employability skills at the point of graduation. The study was partially driven by past research which identified lack of soft skills as one of the main contributing factors in younger workers’ dismissal from work, and the need to understand the level of employability skills younger graduates have at graduation. An exploratory descriptive research methodology was used for the study. A survey was administered to 189 fourth-year business students. In total, 90 students filled-in the questionnaire, representing a 47.6% response rate. Based on a structured survey questionnaire administered to final-year undergraduate business students, the four most important employability skills for recruitment to entry-level positions are communication skills, learning skills, positive attitudes and behaviours, and problem-solving skills. The main prominent result was that ‘learning skills’ were ranked the second most important employability skills. In today’s fast-paced, rapidly changing work environments that are characterised by rapid knowledge obsolescence and an unknown future, willingness to learn and proactive lifelong learning are key to sustaining long-term graduate employability. Students seem to be satisfied with their perceived level of academic, personal management, and teamwork skills they possessed at the point of graduation. However, there are possible areas for further improvement regarding creativity and innovative skills, and ability to ‘resolve and management conflicts’ in teamwork. The study found that students used a combination of traditional and student-centred learning methods and pedagogies to acquire employability skills. As business students approach graduation, it is important to focus on areas they can improve and emphasise self-directed lifelong learning throughout their careers. The study confirms the role of external factors—labour market demand—in influencing perceived employability. The perceptions of students need to be systematically included in HEIs’ employability policy and discourse.

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Section: Business Schools Teaching and Learning Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Significance Of the Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Graduate Employability of Business Students

Mainga

Murphy-Braynen

Moxey

et al. 2022

Administrative Sciences

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“…They earn less due to not capitalizing on required time in business (Erogul & Na, 2021;Turnbull et al, 2020). The most significant constraints identified by the authors are (i) women are not allowed to go out for work due to cultural restrictions and (ii) lack of marketing facilities (Uddin, 2021;Echchabi et al, 2020). The significant barriers to the growth of SMEs are family decisions like the care of children and birth rates (Malinao, 2021;Hamid, 2020).…”

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“…Women business graduates entrepreneurs are a vital factor from the economic point of view, not only for females but the overall economic condition of the countries of the South Asian region. The previous literature has proved that finance has been a global constraint for women entrepreneurs regardless of the country's economic position (Uddin, 2021;Tisdell et al, 2020;Echchabi et al, 2020;Erogul & Na, 2021). Previous literature confirmed that female entrepreneurs could not advertise their products; therefore, they are limited to a particular market around them (Islam et al, 2021;Kumar & Shukla, 2019).…”

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The Mediating Role of Competitiveness Between Entrepreneurial Challenges and Willingness of Female Business Graduates

Parmar¹,

Ahmed²,

Štreimikienė³

et al. 2022

JOC

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This research examines the challenges of female business graduate entrepreneurs; we have developed a modified conceptual framework in which willingness to become an entrepreneur has been taken as a dependent variable. However, financial, cultural, marketing, and technological challenges are independent variables. Additionally, we incorporated competitiveness as a mediation variable between independent and dependent variables. The competitiveness could be beneficial to the female business graduates’ entrepreneurs and might be reduced by their financial, marketing, cultural, and technological challenges. The data was collected through a modified structured questionnaire from the entrepreneurs of female business graduates. The information was collected from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka; we have collected 386 responses for the period from February 2021 to July 2021. We employed a structural equation modelingbased (SEM-based) multivariate approach and conditional process modeling for the data analysis. The findings of this research exhibit that the financial challenges, cultural challenges, marketing challenges, and technological challenges have a significant negative impact on female business entrepreneurs. These are the constraints that restrict female business graduates’ entrepreneurial opportunities. On the other hand, the mediation analysis showed that competitiveness has a positive and significant impact between financial challenges, cultural challenges, marketing challenges, & technological challenges, and willingness to become an entrepreneur. The perfect mediation of competitiveness established that the business success of SMEs does not rely on the individuals’ competencies and success factors only, but organizational competitiveness is equally essential for organizational performance.

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“…A combination of these policy measures would allow for both a decrease in consumers’ welfare loss and a more competitive rice market in Bangladesh. Bangladesh is an emerging market economy, especially in South Asia (ADB, 2021; Suman et al., 2020; Uddin, 2021). The country is about to graduate from least developed to developing country (Chowdhury, 2020; Rahman, Sony, et al., 2020).…”

Section: Conclusion and Policy Recommendationsmentioning

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Welfare impact of asymmetric price transmission on rice consumers in Bangladesh

Rahman

Pede

Balié

2022

Review Development Economics

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This study investigates asymmetric price transmission (APT) in the rice market in Bangladesh using monthly price series at farm, wholesale, and retail levels from October 2005 to June 2017 in a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model (NARDL). The results indicate a significant asymmetric relationship across price at retail, wholesale, and farm levels in the long and short term. While wholesalers/millers benefit from the imperfect price transmission at the expense of farmers, retailers gain over wholesalers/millers. We find that the consumer surplus decreases from a price rise at the wholesale or farm level, but consumers do not enjoy a proportional increase in their surplus from a price reduction. The study reveals that the consumer welfare loss due to APT along the rice value chain of Bangladesh is equivalent to US$89.05 million per month. This estimated aggregate welfare loss requires both the attention of decision‐makers and corrective actions.

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Addressing employability challenges of business graduates in Bangladesh: Evidence from an emerging economy perspective

Cited by 21 publications

References 37 publications

Graduate Employability of Business Students

Graduate Employability of Business Students

The Mediating Role of Competitiveness Between Entrepreneurial Challenges and Willingness of Female Business Graduates

Welfare impact of asymmetric price transmission on rice consumers in Bangladesh

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