Employer Engagement Practices of UK Business Schools and Departments: An Empirical Investigation

Autor/inn/en	Bennett, Roger; Kane, Suzanne
Titel	Employer Engagement Practices of UK Business Schools and Departments: An Empirical Investigation
Quelle	In: Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 61 (2009) 4, S.495-516 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-6820
Schlagwörter	School Business Relationship; Employment Potential; College Graduates; Business Administration Education; Curriculum Design; Administrator Attitudes; Questionnaires; Models; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Lehrplangestaltung; Fragebogen; Analogiemodell; Ausland; Großbritannien
Abstract	A survey of managers in charge of employer engagement activities in UK business schools and departments was completed to ascertain: (1) the employer engagement methods that were most commonly used by institutions; (2) business school managers' attitudes towards employers' involvement in course design; and (3) the respondents' perceptions of the benefits and problems connected with employer engagement programmes. Possible antecedents of the extent of a business school or department's engagement with employers were examined together with the link between the extent of engagement and the actual level of employment of a university's business graduates. Hypothesised determinants of the extent of employer engagement included top management's predilections towards employability matters, a business school's "organisational distance" from the corporate world, financial circumstances, and the size and age of the institution. A model to explain the extent of a business school or department's employer engagement was constructed and tested. It emerged that managerial predilections and a university's financial situation exerted especially powerful effects on the extent of engagement. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10