Study of Important Skills in Management Students and their Relationship with Employability
Author(s)
Lokinder Kumar Tyagi* (Professor, Amity University, Noida, India) and Indu Rani (Assistant Professor & Ph.D. Scholar, Bharati Vidyapeeth University Institute of Management & Research, New Delhi, India), *Corresponding author's Email
Citation
Tyagi, Lokinder Kumar and Rani, Indu (2017), “Study of Important Skills in Management Students and their Relationship with Employability”, MERC Global’s International Journal of Management, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 78-85.
Article history
Submitted: December 29, 2016, Revision received: February 3, 2017, Accepted: February 16, 2017
This is an empirical research with a purpose to study the perspective of management students in Delhi towards important skills and their relationship with employability. The data has been collected from 500 MBA students and its applicability was successfully verified and validated through questionnaires from management educational Institutions and Universities in Delhi. The research has also proposed a model, which was developed based on the analysis of literature and outcome from data collections through questionnaires, personal interviews with the stakeholders. The model constructs were identified and confirmed by respondent representing management students from different Universities. The study revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship exists between the skills and employability of Management students.
Keywords
Management students, Skills, Employability, India.
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