Title: Synthesising employability skills with classical theories of motivation in the healthcare industry
Authors: Swati Sisodia; Neetima Agarwal
Addresses: School of Management, G.D Goenka University, Gurugram, India ' Amity School of Business, Amity University, Noida, India
Abstract: In the era of transitions and additions, the business world is under-going mutations in terms of dissimilitude workforce, customer-orientation, employee-satisfaction and shareholder-expectations. The world will soon witness humanoids working along with humans having higher 'intelligence quotient'. The stage has arrived to develop 'wisdom quotient' in the existing human workforce. In order to achieve this, the organisation should first understand the skills of each employee and then attune training programs to reengineer their expertise. The concept of expertise workforce to increase productivity has its roots from scientific management theory of Taylor. This research paper has firstly comprehended various skills required across the three hierarchical levels in the organisation and then anatomised the relationship between employability skills, training effectiveness and Maslow need hierarchy through techniques of structured equation modelling (SEM).
Keywords: training; need hierarchy theory; employability skills; scientific management theory; Johari window; whirl of prowess.
DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2020.109752
International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2020 Vol.21 No.2, pp.181 - 205
Received: 05 Mar 2019
Accepted: 09 Jun 2019
Published online: 22 Sep 2020 *