http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/123456789/9 2026-04-23T15:10:50Z 2026-04-23T15:10:50Z Razia, Sultana http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/123456789/11308 2023-12-13T21:00:35Z 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z

Measuring the Immediate Impact of On-the-Job Soft Skills Training on Critical Situation Management Razia, Sultana In the last few years, it is very commonly seen that some organizations enthusiastic to arrange different scientific training programs designed to improve employability through soft skills training like Critical Situation Management (CSM). The prime aim of this paper is to measure the instant changes of micro finance employees for managing the critical situation in workplace. This study has considered 20 area managers of micro finance program at BRAC as respondents of the study, who have recently participated 3 days soft skill based training on situation management. Two different sets of structured questionnaire was used, to collect the respondents' opinion before and immediate after of training program. The evaluation of the training was based on the respondents' ability to handle the situations in work station, conducted before, and after, the training program took place. The results indicate significant impact on some, but not all, of the competencies and skills under study. Moreover, respondents have identified the best way to analyze the situation and operate situation effectively and efficiently. Additionally, this reveals that employees are achieved scientific skill to handle abnormal situation both in work place as well as personal life. This study concludes with a discussion of immediate result of employees' employability and their capacity to operate the respective program effectively and efficiently with the acquired soft skill knowledge.

2017-07-01T00:00:00Z Zamala, MD. Fahad Bin Begum, Afsana Rawshan, Lamisha http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/123456789/11307 2023-12-13T21:00:35Z 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z

Industry-Academia Collaboration Zamala, MD. Fahad Bin; Begum, Afsana; Rawshan, Lamisha Industry- Academia relationship is an essential element to generate innovation and employability. Systematic and coordinated approaches are absent in most industry and academy relationships which brings unsuccessful collaboration among them. Current trend of relationship between industry and academia failed to impact revenue generation hence could not create employment opportunities. Identifying the gaps between industry and academy will allow more outcome based research and innovation. Most research collaborations nowadays are ad hoc or opportunistic based which often fail to meet the expectation and are difficult to sustain in a competitive world. Successful collaboration can be established if we are able to recognize potential sources of conflict and ensure that they are addressed properly. In this paper we address those gaps by presenting a systematic review of the literature on industry-academy relationship. Here we investigate areas of conflicts; suggest strategies to overcome those and identify the driving forces that can stimulate the relation between industry and academy.

2017-07-01T00:00:00Z Marzia Rahman Debnath, Ananna http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/123456789/11306 2023-12-13T21:00:35Z 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z

Graduates' Employability and Importance of Communication Skills Marzia Rahman; Debnath, Ananna English has been included in the education system of Bangladesh for a long time. However, after getting twelve years education in English, learners average competency in spoken English at tertiary level is not yet up to the standard which is a consequence of negligence of teaching speaking at every level of education (Imam, Ropum & Arif, 2013). Unlike the private universities, the public universities of Bangladesh hardly give emphasis on communication skills to make the students able to compete in the job market. Consequently, graduates are found to have problems in communicating in English and they feel shy to speak in English (Azizul, 2010 in Tahereen, 2015) and often in the job market their communication ability fails to impress the interview board. This paper aimed to find out are the public universities offer any Spoken English course and to what extent communication skills is given emphasis on the other compulsory disciplinary courses. Two public universities inside Dhaka had been selected to find out the answers of the central research questions. Interview questions for the teachers and classroom observation checklist have been used to collect data. As a theoretical framework this paper has used Brown and Yule's framework of three types of speech (1983). It is found that in public universities most of the departments do not offer specific spoken courses and even they do not give any emphasis on spoken skills on other disciplinary courses which create adverse effects on graduates' employability.

2017-07-01T00:00:00Z Bustamama, Ummi Salwa Ahmad Anim, Nur Aqilah Hazirah Mohd http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/123456789/11305 2023-12-13T21:00:34Z 2017-07-01T00:00:00Z

Academia-Industry Linkages Bustamama, Ummi Salwa Ahmad; Anim, Nur Aqilah Hazirah Mohd The increasing rate of unemployed graduates is one of the critical issues that triggers world's concerns lately. Malaysia's recent upsurge in graduate unemployment has specific causes relating to economic development, education policy-making, and reforms in the economy as well as in higher education. In Malaysia, every year, almost 200,000 fresh graduates search for employment. Besides academic performance, it has been acknowledged that graduates should be equipped with industrial relevance skills to increase their marketability and competency rate. The Government of Malaysia also encourages active involvement of industries through strategic partnerships and joint ventures with higher education institutions in providing these relevant skills and training to the students. The purpose of this paper is to expose one of the programs called Hands- On Programme of Entrepreneurship (HOPE) which is being executed through the academia-industry linkages experienced by University Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) in nurturing the entrepreneurial graduates. This paper adopts a case study of HOPE at USIM and found that the involvement of industry is pivotal in tertiary's education, especially in terms of students' activities and development. Ultimately, this paper provides a new insight on the academia-industry linkages especially for nurturing students to have entrepreneurial attributes as one of soft-skills upon their graduation.

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