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    Importance of Soft Skills in

    Management Education
    Paper presented by

    Mr. Venkataram Bhat


    Assistant Professor in Commerce
    Government First Grade College,
    Shankaranrayana, Karnataka state 576227
    E-mail: [email protected] Mobile -91-9900199644

    8th and 9th April -2011


    International Conference on Re-engineering Management
    Education
    Karnataka State Open University, Mysore.
    Introduction
    Need for re-inventing and re-engineering
    management education.
    75 percent of long term job success depends

    on soft skills and only 25 percent on technical


    skills.
    Progress and profits of any company depend

    on soft skills (marketing and consumer service)


    Soft skills play a vital role for professional and

    personal success
    Quality issues with business schools.

    Reason for employability deficit is lack of soft

    skills among management graduates.


    Objectives
    What is the importance of soft skills in
    management education?
    What are the important soft skills for

    management graduates?
    What are the suitable methods of

    teaching the soft skills in management


    institutes?
    Methodology
    Primary data collected from the

    management students

    Primary data collected from

    management educators
    Descriptive data collected from
    books and prior survey reports of
    industry associations and research
    institutes.
    *Subject to limitations of time, resources and samples survey.
    Findings - Analysis
    Students :-
    Soft skills are most important for employability
    and success.
    Agreed that at present academic environment
    had highest impact soft skills learning level.
    Communication skills and attitude are most

    important soft skills.


    Academics stress on teaching technical

    aspects than soft skills.


    They suggested that team projects,

    corporate visits, guest lectures and


    seminar presentations are methods to
    inculcate soft skills.
    Findings - Analysis
    Business Educators :-
    Soft skills are most important for employability
    and success of their students.
    There is limited scope for teaching soft skills in
    management courses due to the present
    academic policies.
    Every teacher has his own method of imbibing
    soft skills amongst students beyond the
    university syllabus.
    Industry wants management graduates who
    are job ready, so that the training costs can
    be reduced.
    Important soft skills
    Have a "winner" attitude
    Be a team player

    Communicate effectively

    Exude confidence

    Hone your creative skills

    Accept & learn from criticism

    Motivate yourself & lead others

    Multitask & prioritize your to-do list

    See the big picture


    Suggestions
    Suitable academic policies.
    Structure programs to simulate the
    workplace.
    Outdoor Learning Programs.

    Feedback and mentoring.

    Two parts in soft skills training


    Developing attitudes and attributes
    Fine-tuning communication skills to
    express attitudes, ideas, and thoughts
    well
    Conclusion
    Soft skill is the ability required and expected
    from persons for finding a suitable job, its
    maintenance and promotion.
    To conclude, soft skills training is about
    enabling and empowerment of management
    graduates for individual and organizational
    success.
    References
    Web References
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    work (accessed on 12-03-2011)
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    12-03-2011)
    Nine Soft Skills For Success By Sean Hewitt, Career Advisor, http://competency-
    matrix.blogspot.com/ ( accessed on 16-03-2011)
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    03-2011)
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    References
    Books and Journal References
    Management texts and cases, Rao V.S.P and Harikrishna V., Excel books, New Delhi,
    2010, Pp829.
    Management of Organization Behavior leading to Human Resources Management,
    Hersey P., Blanchard K. and Johnson D.E., Prentice Hall India, 2002, Pp176.+
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    Books Inc, Norwalk,USA,2005, P126
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