Convention Coverage: APA Conference August 2001 Workshops: The Joy of Relating and Communicating: A Skill Enhancement Group

Effective skills development systems which connect education to technical training, technical training to labor market entry and labor market entry to workplace and lifelong learning can help employees to sustain productivity growth and translate that growth into more and better job opportunities in the new economic era. The globe has been changing very fast and on a continuous basis due to technological advancement, As a result it will put acute pressure on the management of the organizations’ as well as employees’ skill. As a result new skill enhancement training programs are necessary to bridge the gap in order to fulfill the expectations of the organizations and their employees. The objective of the present study is to map the perception of employees regarding effectiveness of training practices in influencing their attitude and motivation. The inferences have been derived from primary data collected through questionnaires. In this study, we found that in the ever-changing corporate strategies in the business world, it is compelling for the company to give utmost importance to the human capital for their job satisfaction through right proposition of the motivation of the employees. In the same line, the management would like to find out the real causes for the difference of opinion among the different group of people within the same organization. Hence, depending on the organizational systems, there might be different training strategies which would be implemented for their employees’ skill enhancement. In this context, each department will play an important role for the success of the training programs. At the same time, the management should be careful about the factors of the training programs and make the necessary arrangements for their correlation to create a strong bond.

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The Nourish Program: An Innovative Model for Cooking, Gardening, and Clinical Care Skill Enhancement for Dietetics Students

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics ◽

10.1016/j.jand.2017.12.004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 119 (2) ◽

pp. 199-203 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John Wesley McWhorter ◽

Margaret Raber ◽

Shreela V. Sharma ◽

Laura S. Moore ◽

Deanna M. Hoelscher

Keyword(s):

Clinical Care ◽

Innovative Model ◽

Skill Enhancement

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Perception of Undergraduate Students Towards Implementation of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) in India

Development of education ◽

10.31483/r-98563 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 54-64

Author(s):

Santosh Kumar Parida

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Comprehensive Evaluation ◽

Successful Implementation ◽

Credit System ◽

Transfer Credits ◽

Subject Selection ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Student Advisor ◽

Skill Enhancement ◽

Commerce Students

The study was conducted to explore the perception of students towards CBCS and the challenges faced by them in the progress for successful implementation of CBCS. Convergent Parallel design of mix-method approach has been used. A total 80 students from Ravenshaw University and from affiliated urban degree colleges of Utkal University were selected as sample of the study. Self-developed perception scale and an open-ended questionnaire were administered. The collected data were analyzed by using percentage, t-test, ANOVA. The research revealed no significant difference in perception towards CBCS between boys and girls and between Arts, Science and Commerce students. Majority of student respondents (87.5%) have a favourable perception towards introduction of GPA instead of marks. Students highly recommended for the provision of credit transfer system, employment-based skill enhancement courses, internal exams, appointment of student advisor and flexibility to study at different times and different institutions to complete one course and scope to transfer credits from one institution to other. Majority of Students highly satisfied with the semester system of examination, flexibility in subject selection, continuous comprehensive evaluation and skill enhancement courses. The study revealed some problem which are faced by students in the successful implementation of Choice Based Credit System such as; overburden of course, workload, exam oriented, inadequate library and infrastructure, absence of specialized teachers and references, text books. The findings of the present study yielded the necessity of developing strategies by all the stakeholders for successful implementation of Choice Based Credit System.

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