Are Our Students Ready to Become Successful Employees? A Comparative Analysis of Seven Countries
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Kumpikaite Valiūniene, Vilmante; Aslan, Imran; Glinska, Ewa; Mihi Ramírez, Antonio Luis; Alas, RuthEditorial
Deomed Publishing
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Cultural differences Development methods Students' motivation Students’ skills
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2019Referencia bibliográfica
Kumpikaite-Valiūniene, V., Aslan, I., Glinska, E., Mihi Ramirez, A., & Alas, R. (2019). Are our students ready to become successful employees? A comparative analysis of seven countries. Yüksekögretim Dergisi, 9(1), 1–18.
Abstract
The article focuses on students’ attitudes towards their future job performance
in relation to becoming successful employees. The level of employee
success was measured using the attitudes toward future work performance
of students from seven countries (Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Iran,
Portugal and Estonia) through their assessment of skills, skill developing
methods, motivation and environmental factors. A total of 1,355 students
participated in the survey. In this study, the data analysis was performed
using statistical methods including descriptive methods, comparison of
means and Cronbach’s alpha. Results of the study show that skills and especially
training methods influence students’ motivation to work more effectively
regardless of the salary received. The results also demonstrate that
most students regard basic and people-related skills as the most important
factors, but cultural differences were also noticed. Lithuanian, Polish and
Iranian participants ranked one-to-one training methods as having the most
impact on their development, while Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish students
preferred group training methods. Moreover, in comparison to the
students from other countries, the Spanish participants considered environmental
factors to be extremely important.