Modelling the relationship between teaching methods, assessment methods and acquisition of 21st employability skills among university graduates

Segbenya, Moses; Atadika, Dzifa; Aheto, Simon-Peter Kafui; Nimo, Esther Bema

doi:10.1177/09504222231175433

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“…Life-long learning allows individuals to adapt to technological advancements, industry changes, and evolving social needs (Park and Luo, 2023). The educational system in a given country (Segbenya et al, 2023;Tight, 2023) and employers (Van der Heijden et al, 2016) are also responsible for developing the employability of individuals. Moreover, within the concept of S-HRM it is emphasized that the responsibility of the company is not to ensure life-long employment in a given company, but to enable employees to find a new job easily in the case of redundancies (De Prins et al, 2014).…”

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Developing future competencies of people employed in non-standard forms of employment: employers’ and employees’ perspective

Piwowar-Sulej,

Bąk-Grabowska

2024

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PurposeThe aim of this study is to analyze the differences between non-standard forms of employment (FoE) (i.e. dependent self-employment/business-to-business/B2B contract and contract of mandate) in terms of investing in the development of future competencies by employees and employers. This study also examined additional factors which influence these investments.Design/methodology/approachTo collect data, the computer-assisted telephone interview technique was used. 200 employees from different companies located in Poland participated in this study, wherein each of the above-mentioned FoEs (i.e. dependent self-employment and contract of mandate) was represented by 100 people. The Chi-Square test and multivariate logistic regression analysis were used in the statistical analyses.FindingsIn the case of only 2 out of 14 competencies, there were statistically significant differences between the two groups of respondents: the employers financed training courses for B2B employees more frequently than for mandate contract workers. Moreover, in only one case there was a statistically significant difference: the self-employed financed training courses themselves more often than mandate contract workers. This study revealed an important impact of other variables such as respondents’ age, education level, parental status and industry on the training activities undertaken by employers and employees.Originality/valueAlthough the issue of developing future competencies is important, there is little research examining this problem in the context of people who work in non-standard FoE. Moreover, previous research primarily focused on identifying differences between people working under employment contracts and the self-employed. This article fills these research gaps as well as shows that more factors should be considered in the research models to get a deeper insight into the problem of non-standard FoEs.

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