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Abstract / Summary

By Joyce B. Boone. The modern workforce has changed rapidly and markedly as technological advances drive the way workers function and perform their routine duties. However, even with broad technological advances in communications and computers, an effective worker must also possess strong interpersonal skills and other soft skills. These skills rely on knowledge and understanding of human behavior, communication, and self-knowledge, among many other factors. In today’s competitive global economy, research in the domain of soft skills training in business and education is needed to enable focused, empirically-based training of workers. Focused, scenario-based training will help to address the needs of managers in industry, as well as to inform the revision of business education programs to align with industry needs. To add to the understanding of the transfer of soft skills training from business education programs to the world of work, this paper presents a review of literature related to soft skills in the workplace and the transfer of training, a description of a scenario-based soft skills course of study as an intervention, and a recommended methodology to examine the impact of the intervention on soft skills transfer from the business program to the workplace.

Field of Interest

Travel

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2014 NeilsonJournals Publishing

Content Type

Periodical article

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Page Count

10

Publication Year

2014

Publisher

Neilson Journals Publishing

Place Published / Released

Edinburgh, Scotland

Source Title

Journal of International Business Education, Vol. 9, 2014, pp. 201-210

Subject

Travel, Business & Economics, Personal Interest, Social Sciences, International Travel, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Viajes Internacionales, Viagem Internacional

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Viajes Internacionales, Viagem Internacional