Do Business Schools Really Fulfill Industry Requirements? An Investigation of Industrial Performance of Business Graduates (original) (raw)

This paper focuses on evaluating industrial performance of business graduates on the basis of four performance dimensions namely knowledge, skills, abilities, personality through their attributes. It also uncovers the gap between performances standards desired by managers and the actual ones exhibited by the business graduates. Questionnaire was served to managers from different industries to get their views about various performance dimensions and their factors. Subsequently, they were asked to evaluate the actual performance of their employees by rating them over 5 points Likert scale. This evaluation is then used to identify the gap in desired and the exhibited performance. It has been found that managers consider knowledge as the most important dimension while conscientiousness as the most significant factor for performance. However, most of the business graduates are not meeting the industry requirements proving a significant gap between desired and actual performance of busine...

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