Youth transitioning from high school, post-secondary education, and vocational training to the workforce face a number of challenges finding and keeping a job. In addition to education and experience requirements, employers are increasingly looking for new hires with “soft skills” such as communication and professionalism (Osterman, 2005). As soft skills become more important to employers, it i...

This is another in a series of articles about some of the most effective models, methods, and processes of organization development (OD), also known as change management, a discipline that offers much to professionals intent on solving real-world problems. Because it is based on a systemic view of organizations, OD includes the whole universe of fuzzy people issues that increasingly determine t...

In recent years, the UK government and policymakers have sought to maximise the impact of the creative economy via a programme of targeted intervention. Intermediary agencies − those organisations that sit between government and policymakers on one hand, and creative practitioners and microbusinesses on the other − are increasingly seen as crucial to the functioning of the creative economy. Thi...

Employers have been critical of the opportunities students have to integrate technical business and soft skills in IS programs. The IS capstone course is one mechanism through which to address this need. Literature indicates IS capstone courses differ in the weight they place on technology, business, and soft skills integrated as a part of the course. This paper argues it is important to addres...

This paper presents a study conducted in aprivate university in Malaysiaspecialisingin Engineering and Technology studies. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the preliminary findings of a study which examined to what extent the soft skills are being integrated in the teaching of Engineering courses by addressing the teaching approaches and examining the soft skills that are being emphasise...

What skills do project managers (PMs) need, and how do these skills impact project success in IT outsourcing? In this study, we seek to identify what factors impact IT project outcomes, such as costs and client satisfaction, given the project characteristics and PM’s hard and soft skills. We examine data collected from a field study conducted at a major IT service provider in India. Our results...

Employers around the world complain that youth lack the soft skills needed for success in the workplace. In response, a number of employment programs have begun to incorporate soft skills training, but to date there has been little evidence as to the effectiveness of such programs. This paper reports on a randomized experiment in Jordan in which female community college graduates were randomly ...

Zusammenfassung Welche Schwerpunkte setzen Lehrende abhängig vom Weiterbildungsinhalt bei der Stützung transferförderlicher Maßnahmen? Um dies zu ermitteln, wurden in vorliegenden Studie aus berufsbezogenen Weiterbildung ( N = 418) mittels einer Online-Erhebung ihrem transferförderlichen Vorgehen befragt. Eine einfaktorielle MANOVA ergab für sämtliche Maßnahmenbereiche einen signifikanten Unter...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to gauge the technical and soft skills of the hospital security personnel so as to enable prioritization of their training needs. METHODOLOGY A cross sectional questionnaire based study was conducted in December 2011. Two separate predesigned and pretested questionnaires were used for gauging soft skills and technical skills of the security personnel. Extensive stat...