Students' Attitude to Job Performance: Intercultural Study
Date
2016Author
Kumpikaite-Valiuniene, Vilmante and Glinska, Ewa and Aslan, Imran and
Ramirez, Antonio Mihi
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Knowledge and skills of future employees should be constantly developed
in order to be in line with changes, information flow, and new
technologies. High unemployment rates of youth lead us to look for
reasons and means to change this situation. However, university teachers
in the entire world deal with students who do not care or who do not
want to work every day. Therefore, this paper aims to present the
results of intercultural study evaluating students' attitudes to job
performance.
The research design is based on Blanchard and Thacker's (2004) Human
Performance model, which includes three main factors, namely i)
Motivation, ii) Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes, and iii) Environment.
The study provides insights on how students evaluate their skills,
motivation and environment factors influencing their future performance
in Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Portugal and Estonia. Totally
1355 respondents participated in the poll.
The results confirm that students evaluate their task related skills,
which are the most important for employers as the weakest. Basic and
growth needs are the most important, and specific environment influences
students more according to the study. In addition, cultural differnces
among respective countries were highlighted. This survey can be useful
for university teachers working with international groups in order to
improve students' viewpoint on human performance at work within national
and international context, and for employers to understand better new
employees coming to work after graduation from universities.
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