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Expected Competencies of New Employees and Business Education

Lee, Gyusang

Published: January 1996 · Vol. 25, No. 2 · pp. 355-386
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Motivating students to study management research is critically important in introductory-level management courses. Going beyond mere comprehension of knowledge to ensuring that it is internalized as managerial competence requires considerable effort from both faculty and students on multiple dimensions. This paper designed a model addressing what corporations and professors expect from new employees who are graduates of business and economics programs—particularly those with management majors—and what they teach these graduates, and evaluated their competencies according to this model. Problems in management education were identified, and areas requiring emphasis in education were analyzed. The research model for expected competencies of new employees was divided into two domains—one primarily under the professor's responsibility through instruction and one under the student's own responsibility—and an integrated model was constructed. Rather than conducting a confirmatory analysis of an existing model, the study underwent an exploratory analysis process for a new research model. A survey questionnaire was developed and administered to management professors and corporate human resource directors. The analysis results indicated that while strategic planning ability and achievement levels of new employees need improvement, the prerequisite competencies of field experience, global perspective, and foreign language proficiency were significantly lacking. The evaluation of management education was also rated low in areas related to understanding Korean corporate realities, field-based education, and business professional spirit, and the areas most urgently requiring future emphasis were identified as understanding international economic trends and gaining familiarity with the corporate field.