Employability skills of management students: A study of teacher's viewpoint

In the present study, an attempt has been made to examine the views of faculty members towards the employability skills of management graduates of state and private universities in the states of Haryana and Punjab. A sample of 90 teachers i.e. forty-five each from state and private university was taken. The key data where obtained by means of a five-point Likert questionnaire and evaluated through different descriptive statistics including frequency distribution, mean, standard deviation, etc. Person t-test was used to test and verify the findings of the study hypotheses. The research reveals that teachers in private universities focused on perceptive qualified individuals, negotiating capabilities and reputation elements, while teachers in state Universities focused on theoretical competencies, delegation competences, perceptual abilities and strategic vision under the direction of fundamental employability. In the other hand, instructors at private colleges are strongly focused on transdisciplinary expertise, emotional stress control, new skills and construction mental abilities under current employability skills. whereas teachers of state universities prioritised novelty skills, cognitive load management skills and trans-disciplinarity skills. To improve the employability skills of the students, teachers suggested variety of ways such as university-industry collaboration approach, skill-base education system, project learning techniques, learning with the help of internships and projects, trained faculty, etc. As well as the higher education institutions must develop effective routes of the communication with the employers, provide required training to the staff members so that they can generate required employability skills in the students and develop additional package of skills which are beyond the occupation as per employer's demands. © 2021