Readiness of new recruits on contemporary trends in workplace communication Online publication date: Sat, 30-Nov-2013
by Shailja Agarwal; Jaya Chitranshi
International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management (IJICBM), Vol. 6, No. 4, 2013
Abstract: Increasingly, voices in corporations can be heard lamenting the recruitment of 'corporate burdens' incapable of functioning in industry. Amongst others, one primary reason behind this lament is poor communication skills in English, more so of non-native English speaking employees. This scenario gives rise to a spate of debate on the effectiveness of academia in making business graduates performance worthy. The literature is grounded with work on what various stakeholders - recruiters, faculty, students - feel about the course of business communication in alignment to corporate needs but somehow, a very crucial stakeholder - the newly recruited business graduate - has not been explicitly focused upon. If a gap analysis is undertaken, perhaps a match between workplace communication skills and the skills taught could be put in place. This study enters this discussion. This would greatly help organisations in reducing cost to the company on an employee, since training needs could be taken care of by business schools.
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