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Practical Advice for Developing, Designing and Delivering
Effective Soft Skills Programs
--Jean Adams
Although most business and community leaders understand and appreciate the value and importance of continuous learning and professional soft skill development, scarcity of critical resources like time and money, unfortunately, often get in the way. This paper offers practical research-based advice for developing, designing, and delivering effective soft skills learning programs aimed at maximizing the impact of e-learning when facing these common workplace and academic challenges. Some of the concepts covered include the importance of: (a) developing programs based on full awareness of underlying assumptions in content creation for soft skills development and how this can impact learning outcomes; (b) designing program strategies that empower learners to take ownership of their own learning soft-skills development; and (c) delivering programs that embrace constructive principles for rewards and accountability that enable soft skills development. The paper will be most relevant for today's coaches, mentors, educators and professionals particularly interested in leadership and management training and development. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
“Hired for Attitude and Trained for Skills”: Engineering Graduates’
Employability in Indian Software Services Industry
--V K Gokuladas and Sandhya Menon
The aim of this paper was to identify those factors that contributed to the employability of engineering graduates in the campus recruitment process by various companies and to analyze whether the same factors remained as the contributors to the success of the same students in the initial stages of corporate life in software services industry. On analyzing the performance of engineering graduates during their academic pursuit and subsequent performance in software services companies, it was observed that while performance in various non-technical skills has greater impact in ensuring employability of engineering graduates during the campus recruitment drives, proficiency in programming skills has significant influence in predicting a better job performance in the initial learning process in the Information Technology sector. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
A Study of the Impact of Self-Regulated Learning on Academic
and Career Goal Clarity Among Postgraduate Women
Students of Bangalore
--Bharati Rao Pothukuchi, S Anil Kumar and Mihir Dash
This paper examines the impact of Self-Regulated Learning on Academic and Career Goal Clarity among postgraduate women students in Bangalore. The data for the study was collected from a random sample of postgraduate women students in Bangalore. The instruments used for data collection included the Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning (Chemers et al., 1991) and the Academic and Career Goal Clarity Scale. Results are in consonance with the Zimmerman and Pintrich Models of Self-regulated learning. Results validate the stages and sequence of the 1st phase, the Forethought phase of SRL. Results indicate significant impact of ‘Cognition’ of SRL on ‘What a person wants’ of ACGC. Results are also indicative of influence of ‘Motivation’ stage of SRL on the ‘Preparation’ stage of ACGC. Also ‘Motivation’ stage of SRL influenced the ‘Specialization’ stage of ACGC, in that choice of area of interest, occupation, place of work were all influenced by the ‘Motivation’ factor of SRL. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Case Study
Digital Marketing at Nike:
From Communication to Dialog
--Debapratim Purkayastha and Adapa Srinivasa Rao
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