Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
Routledge
Faculty
Faculty of Business and Law
School
School of Business
RAS ID
16033
Abstract
Persistent gaps in certain non-technical skills in business graduates continue to impact on organisational performance and global competitiveness. Despite business school’s best efforts in developing non-technical skills, widely acknowledged as fundamental to graduate employability, there has been considerably less attention to measuring skill outcomes and even less on their subsequent transfer to the workplace. It appears stakeholders are assuming transfer occurs automatically in graduates, neglecting the influence of learning program, learner and workplace characteristics on this complex process and its potential impact on graduate employability.
This paper unpacks the concept of transfer and proposes a model of graduate employability which incorporates the process. Measures for empirical analysis are discussed. Testing the model would indicate the extent to which transfer occurs and highlight collaborative strategies for employers, universities and graduates in nurturing learning and workplace environments in which transfer may flourish, taking us one step closer to the elusive ‘work-ready’ graduate.
DOI
10.1080/07294360.2012.709832
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Higher Education Research and Development on 24 June 2013: Jackson, D. (2013). Business graduate employability – w here are we going? Higher Education Research and Development, 32(5), 776-790. Published online on 24th June 2013 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online here