Role of employers in the formation of educational programs and resources for training of specialists in service sphere

Zaytseva, N.; Larionova, Аnna A.; Zhukov, V.; Pervunin, Sergey

doi:10.1108/ijem-02-2016-0034

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“…The practice of participation of employers in educational activities of educational establishments such as universities and evaluation of education quality expands, as employers need guarantees that they will be able to find specialists of required qualifications in the labour market, who will be able to start working at once. More and more employers are engaging with universities as they need quality, work-ready graduates (Ictenbas and Eryilmaz, 2011;Bailly, 2008;Niţă and Goga, 2014;Fisher et al, 2017;Zaytseva et al, 2017). Industry opinion on the competencies of management graduates continually reveals dissatisfaction with students' soft skills (Calás and Smircich, 1990).…”

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Management students – expectations and perceptions on work readiness

Chavan

Carter

2018

IJEM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the expectations and reality perspectives accrued in a preliminary management course and understand if they impart and embed real-world skills and develop work readiness. Design/methodology/approach Primary data collected for the research were qualitative. A total of six focus groups were conducted with a total of 52 students enrolled at a large metropolitan university in Australia. NViVO was used to code and analyse the data. Findings The study found that at the commencement of university studies, the expectations were simple like, making new friends, getting around the campus and settling well into the university culture, which over time extended to getting a part-time job, securing internships, memberships of associations, desire to participate in exchange programs and get work-ready by the close of the first year. The research outcomes show that those who held a part-time job while studying demonstrated a better understanding of the preliminary management subject matter taught in class and obtained better grades. Primarily, the preliminary management course did not specifically impart work-ready skills and it would be fitting to embed employability skills in the management curriculum from the commencement of their programs in the first year. Research limitations/implications Qualitative research is used to comprehend a research problem from the outlook perspectives of the local population it involves. The limitations of this methodology includes no objectively verifiable result, adept interviewing skills for interviewers, slow and time consuming during interviewing process and intensive category process also as qualitative inquiry is normally open-ended, the participants have more control over the content of the data collected. Practical implications The lack of skill mismatch and graduates who are not work-ready incurs significant economic and social costs. A number of policy implications emerge due to university-labour market links and skills mismatches and the impact on students and the labour market. The rise in unemployment and the skills mismatch seen after the economic crisis requires immediate attention. Job creation is crucial but so is the need to develop graduate with appropriate matching skills and qualities to do the job. Mandatory internships, apprenticeships and on-the-job training for university students would help. Governments can provide financial incentives and subsidies to organisations providing the above services and working cooperatively with the universities to get students work-ready. Universities must raise the educational requirements over time as jobs become more complex. Universities can build communities of practice with the assistance of this scheme to enable students to interact with the industry professionals. An additional year of vocational training could be recommended for the graduating students. This would help the young graduates to get work-related skills. Wheelahan et al. (2015) state that building better links between education and work can help provide a more rational approach to vocational development. They propose the use of vocational streams and productive capabilities in the education system and labour market to achieve this. Social implications This requires a combined effort from all stakeholders. A systematic approach needs to be adopted. First, the gap between the knowledge provided by the universities and the skills required by the employers need to be reduced. Second, the employers and the universities should keep a watch on the labour market and develop strategies to meet the dynamic requirements of the labour market collaboratively. Third, career guidance will help inform students make a career choice to match the labour market opportunities. This should be a part of the policy agenda for responding to the lack of work-ready graduates in the labour market. Originality/value Learning and teaching activities must include industry interface and engagement right from the first year at university. The main findings from this research indicated the need for better understanding of first-year students’ expectations. The two significant student expectations that emerged were “need for collaborations” and “industry interface”.

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Management students – expectations and perceptions on work readiness

Chavan

Carter

2018

IJEM

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“…The survey respondents also agreed on the element of providing training to the students and lecturers by the industries as the most important element in the sustainable framework. For this, the industries are suggested to participate or lead master classes and seminars on specific technologies, work with certain equipment (Zaytseva et al, 2017). They should suggest providing a mock-up interview to prepare the TVET-TE students for their job hunting.…”

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“…Problems that relate to the stakeholder also have been studies worldwide. The industry, for instance, is facing issues such as bullying during the apprenticeship (Riggall et al, 2017), lack of understanding between the industry and institution and lack of industry experts that can cater to both the academic and skills aspect (Zaytseva et al, 2017) and irrelevant role of industries towards the postgraduate program (Frick et al, 2016). These issues need to be focused on so that the national plan for TVET can be achieved.…”

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Measuring the Level of Agreement on the Development of Sustainable Framework for TVET Teacher Education Program in Malaysia

Hamdan

Yunos

Sern

et al. 2021

JTET

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TVET Teacher Education program in Malaysia has been established to produce TVET teachers who can meet the criteria of the 21st Century. This study is the first to investigate the agreement level of lecturers in the TVET teacher education program on the development of the related sustainable framework. We developed a questionnaire to assess the level of agreement on the domain and elements needed for the sustainable framework for the TVET Teacher Education program in Malaysia. We then conducted a survey involving 117 TVET Teacher Education programs lecturers in all Malaysia public universities. The data were analysed using Descriptive Analysis involving the mean score and standard deviation. The result indicates the lecturers perceived the Role of Government [M=6.11; SD = .697] as the highest domain important to developing the sustainable framework and the Criteria of Sustainable Management System [M=5.72; SD= .843] as the lowest agreed on the importance of the domain. Moreover, the entire sustainable framework perceived a high level of agreement from the respondent. It is believed that with this sustainable framework of the TVET Teacher Education program, the criteria of Malaysian TVET teacher produced can be tailored to the need of future education. We recommended that the replication of this study from different teacher education programs in Malaysia ensure all teachers in Malaysia are qualified and versatile with future education.

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“…It is necessary to use organizational and technological innovations more actively, to apply the project approach, which is in many respects similar to the position [31,32,33] At the same time, developing the ideas of S. Peillon, K. Medini, N. Dubruc [34], the main characteristics of the program in engineering education are multidisciplinarity, in the blending conditions of engineering and management approaches, and "mixing theory, case studies and the use of simulation, based on several educational tools ", we note that the preparation of a competitive specialist combines in modern engineering education, along with technical managerial competencies related skills of production management, marketing, logistics, engineering, system design.…”

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The Use of Organizational and Technological Innovations in the Process of Managerial and Engineering Personnel’s Training

Larionova¹,

Zaitseva²,

Фадеев³

et al. 2017

Eurasian J Anal Chem

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Today in the Russian economy there is a shortage of highly skilled engineering personnel having innovative thinking, knowledge not only in the field of fundamental science, but also in the field of management and business. Given the presence in the Russian Federation of a number of highly prestigious technical universities, not all educational institutions in the country train professional staff at the required level, which determines the relevance of the study of the application of organizational and technological innovations in the process of preparing managerial and engineering personnel. In the process of studying this problem, research methods such as studying and generalizing the experience of training managerial and engineering personnel in higher education institutions, statistical methods of analysis, and the method of expert assessments were used. The study provides an assessment of the level of innovation development in the Russian Federation, highlights the most important from the point of view of innovation process competitive advantages of human capital, as the place of Russian graduates in the field of science and technology and universities in international rankings for 2015-2017. The study by the authors of the article of the best foreign and domestic practices made it possible to identify productive organizational and technological innovations in the process of preparing managerial and engineering personnel. The result of the study was the identification of the main elements of the model of the innovation-oriented process of managerial and engineering personnel's training.

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Role of employers in the formation of educational programs and resources for training of specialists in service sphere

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Management students – expectations and perceptions on work readiness

Management students – expectations and perceptions on work readiness

Measuring the Level of Agreement on the Development of Sustainable Framework for TVET Teacher Education Program in Malaysia

The Use of Organizational and Technological Innovations in the Process of Managerial and Engineering Personnel’s Training

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