" Soft skills": A phrase in search of meaning

ML Matteson, L Anderson, C Boyden - portal: Libraries and the …, 2016 - muse.jhu.edu
Soft skills are a collection of people management skills, important to many professions and
job positions, including academic librarianship. Yet the concept of soft skills lacks definition …

Soft skills for entry-level engineers: What employers want

M Hirudayaraj, R Baker, F Baker, M Eastman - Education Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Among the requirements for engineering programs, the Accreditation Board of Engineering
and Technology (ABET) criteria for student outcomes require students to have the ability to …

The effect of soft skills and training methodology on employee performance

R Ibrahim, A Boerhannoeddin… - European Journal of …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of soft skill acquisition and the
training methodology adopted on employee work performance. In this study, the authors …

Distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: students' communication and collaboration and the role of social media

E Zarzycka, J Krasodomska… - Cogent Arts & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
COVID-19 has led to an increase in the use of distance learning and social media for
educational and communication purposes. The paper aims to investigate the factors that …

Quality of agricultural extension on productivity of farmers: Human capital perspective

H Tamsah, Y Yusriadi - Uncertain Supply Chain …, 2022 - m.growingscience.com
The relationship between agricultural extension and farmer productivity has been widely
discussed; agricultural extension directly or indirectly affects farmer productivity. In this study …

Soft skills, do we know what we are talking about?

SI Marin-Zapata, JP Román-Calderón… - Review of Managerial …, 2022 - Springer
During the last decade, individual competencies and soft skills have reached a position of
paramount importance among scholars in different fields. Yet, there seems to be a lack of …

The impact of personal and functional aspects of restaurant employee service behaviour on customer satisfaction

JA Alhelalat, AH Ma'moun, NM Twaissi - International Journal of Hospitality …, 2017 - Elsevier
Employee behaviour plays a significant role in satisfying restaurant customers, however,
there is a paucity of research highlighted personal and functional aspects of employee …

Business (un) usual: Critical skills for the next normal

C Ferreira, J Robertson, L Pitt - … International Business Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of COVID‐19 on global human resource (HR) management has been swift,
dramatic and has fundamentally changed HR processes. The prompt online migration of …

The incorporation of soft skills into accounting curricula: preparing accounting graduates for their unpredictable futures

R De Villiers - Meditari Accountancy Research, 2010 - emerald.com
This paper explores the changing needs of employers and the business community in
relation to the balance between technical and soft skills, such as communication skills …

[HTML][HTML] Organizational culture and development: Testing the structural path of factors affecting employees' work performance in an organization

R Ibrahim, A Boerhannoeddin, BK Kayode - Asia Pacific Management …, 2017 - Elsevier
In the world of business skills training, employees' skills can be generally divided into two
main categories: hard skills and soft skills. For organization to wax stronger and competitive …