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Article: Undergraduate management education: Its place, purpose and efforts to bridge the skills gap
- Article from:
- Journal of Management and Organization
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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ABSTRACT
Australian business graduates are deemed by industry as not being 'job ready' (BCA 2006; BIHECC 2007), lacking the skills required to successfully apply disciplinary knowledge and add value to our globalised, knowledge economy. There exists a lack of empirical evidence and profess
ional input for business schools on profiling the attributes valued by industry. This is especially true for those majoring in management who are consistently overshadowed by their more commercially attractive postgraduate counterparts. In a bid to satisfy industry demands, the most common response among Australian business schools are the development of employability skills and enhanced involvement of ...