Measurement Model of Employability Skills using Confirmatory Factor Analysis

The relations of employability skills to career adaptability among technical school students

“…Similarly, the potential of employability skills has been argued for increasing work-related outcomes and helping people adapting with changes and improving career opportunities in the workplace (Mohd Yusof, Mustapha, Syed Mohamad, & Bunian, 2012). By and large, today's employers demand new and different types of skills from their workers than they were in the past as a result of technological advances and globalization (Cinar, Dongel, & Sogutlu, 2009).…”

Employability Skills Model for Engineering Technology Students

“…A set of questionnaire on Students Employability Skill (SES) Questionnaire consisting 32 items using 5 point Likert scale ranging from '1' as 'Strongly Disagree' to '5' as 'Strongly Agree' was used in this study. It was adapted from Yusof et al (2012) of which eleven factors of Communication (3 items), Problem Solving (3 items), Teamwork (4 items), Planning and organizing (3 items), Creativity or Innovation (3 items), Working with others (3 items), Independent Study (3 items), Numeracy skills (2 items), ICT Skills (3 items), Self-Management (2 items) and Time management (3 items) are included to measure Students Employability Skill (SES). The reliability of SES was at a good level of 0.960 which is consistent as suggested by Hair et al (2010).…”

“…Another related issue is the type of analysis has become one of the limitations of the study. Although most studies are conducted using quantitative (Ismail, 2011;Chandrakumara, 2015;Kalbande & Handa, 2015;Yusof, Mustapha, Mohamad & Bunian, 2012;Xu & Zhang, 2015& Dania, Bakar & Mohamed, 2014 but qualitative method has become an interest among researchers (Lorraine & Sewell, 2007;Ismail & Mohammed, 2015;Su & Zhang, 2015). The quantitative aspect focuses on multiple linear regressions that are widely used in predicting the said variable (Dania et.…”

Attaining Sustainable Organization in an Era of Technology Disruption through Leadership and Strategic Decision Making: Mediating Role of Organizational Politics

“…Politics may be positive (collaborative) or negative (destructive and competitive) policies may be positive (collaborative) or negative (destructive and competitive) but the fact is that without the politics no organization exists. There are two ways of viewing organizational politics: either as a symptom of processes of social influence that benefit the organization or as a self -interested effect against organizational goals [26].…”