Employability Skills: The Conceptual Framework & Scale Development
Published: 2011
Author(s) Name: Rajnish Kumar Misra, Prachee Mishra
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Abstract
Changing business environment
has brought about a paradigm
shift in employer-employee relationship.
This in turn has led to
changes in the meaning of employment
that is, from gainful
employment to employability. This
paper presents an overview of the
concept of employability and explains
the development of an instrument.
It undertakes an exploratory
factor analysis (EFA)
and confirmatory factor analysis
(CFA) of the employability skills
scale with a sample of 348 respondents.
Both the EFA and CFA
yielded a 19-items six factor
model. The model emerged as the
perfect fit on various fit indices.
This scale could be used as a
measure of employability skills
among respondents who apply
for jobs in various business organizations.
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