The Current Trend is that entrepreneurship education is gaining lot of importance in academic discipline. Entrepreneurship development has engrossed the consideration of academicians, policy makers, technologists and economists all over the world. There is, however partial data available relating to entrepreneurship education in Asia, and specifically, in India. India being on the inception of becoming the super power bloc of the world in terms of growth, development and talent has a lot to prove to the world to achieve that status. The only way to accomplish that status is through Enterprise. It is assumed that entrepreneurship education encourages the growth of new businesses, exploiting the entrepreneurial spirit within the education sector. In addition, entrepreneurship education and mentoring plays a crucial role in the development of enterprising citizens and uninterrupted journey in the process of knowledge construction and distribution
Soft skills training is conducted to enhance and increase the performance level of a student to develop ‘people skills’ to meet the current as well as future needs of industry and businesses, to enhance employability, to ensure effective utilization of available resources and integrate personal goals, which results in productivity improvement, greater workforce flexibility, savings on resources and principal costs, more motivated workforce and improved quality. Training and development are extremely crucial to the employees, the organisation and their effectiveness. Training evaluation has been the main focus of many studies in the last decade. It is now a well-established fact that employers are increasingly putting more emphasis on soft skills, it is equally important that students should also adequately appreciate the value of such skills and make deliberate efforts to acquire them. The business students’ attitude towards behavioural courses, with substantial coverage given to soft skills development, is usually negative together with their reluctance to register for such courses. As a result, there is an awareness gap resulting in deficiency of soft skills among business graduates entering the work force. Consequently, there is now more pressure on academic institutions to enhance soft skills of their students through structured training programs. The literature review suggests that a majority of the studies on this topic have been done from employers’ perspective and only a limited number of studies have focused on the perceptions and attitudes of students towards soft skills. In addition, a higher percentage of such studies were conducted in North America and Europe with different learning environment and work culture than in many Asian countries. It is, therefore, worth exploring students’ perceptions of soft skills from a new context. This paper focuses on the perceptions of business management students of the importance of soft skills for their education and employment. Some areas covered by this study were: students’ perceptions of the value of soft skills training, participation in skill development programs and the role of academic institutions in developing soft skills.
Soft skills characterize certain career attributes that individuals may possess like the ability to work on a team, communication skills, leadership skills, customer service and problem solving skills. Effective integration of soft skills into the business curriculum can help students obtain and retain employment in the twenty-first century workforce. It is critical to explore the employability skills required for management graduates in India. It is also useful to determine the importance of integration of soft skills into the Indian business education curriculum along with the concepts, techniques and activities used to incorporate specific soft skills by business educators. To enhance the soft skill traits among students training modules have to be designed at college at the under graduate level itself. With these training programs students have a smooth transition from potential employees to young successful managers. In the era of fast emerging changes, there is a need for future global managers with qualities and competencies with global perspective. Quality is the only currency, which is accepted universally and it is also true with education. Educators have to rethink about management education and efforts should be made to create a dynamic environment which can provide quality management education in India. The main purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of soft skills training on the employability competency of B-School graduates and to identify the important skill groups (core soft skills) required for students to enhance employability.
IJAR - Indian Journal of Applied Research (IJAR) IJAR is a double reviewed monthly print journal that accepts research works from scholars, academicians, professors, doctorates, lecturers, and corporate in their respective expertise of studies.
IJAR - Indian Journal of Applied Research (IJAR) IJAR is a double reviewed monthly print journal that accepts research works from scholars, academicians, professors, doctorates, lecturers, and corporate in their respective expertise of studies.
