Title: Role of Soft Skills in Employability Enhancement-A study of Management and Technical

Students in and around Kolkata.

Abstract:
Communication is a process that allows individuals to exchange information by several methods. Lot of
study has already been done on communication and its effect especially on Business School students.
Communication is included now-a-days as MBA Program curriculum. However, no longitudinal study
has been done between the relationship of Soft-Skill (SS) and Enhancement of Employability (EOE) in
Business Schools and Engineering Colleges in the city of Kolkata. The present study intends to address
this gap and tried to create a systematic understanding of: The components of Soft Skills, The role of
Soft Skills in Employability Enhancement of technical and management students, Factors of
Employability perceived by the employers. Hence this research raises one prominent question with
regards to Employability Enhancement of technical and management students to ask actually Is Soft
Skills one of the parameters in employability enhancement?
Some of the terminologies are all familiar to us in everyday life, but the meanings and approaches are
different to different people. Precise definitions are required for a scientific study. The concepts of
Business Communication, Types of Communication, Informal Communication, Formal communication
Skill, Hard Skills Soft Skills etc. and the relationship between Team Spirit and Interpersonal Skills,
Social Grace and Interpersonal Skills, Business Etiquette and Interpersonal Skills, Negotiation Skills
and Interpersonal Skill, Behavioral Traits and Interpersonal skills, etc. are required to highlight.
Moreover, a conceptual framework is also needed to establish as shown below to deal with the
mentioned hypothesis. The effect of six independent variables, IS, TS, SG, BE, NS, and BT on one
dependent variable, EOE for testing the hypothesis.
We propose to study the above relationship in 80 Engineering and Management colleges in West Bengal,
having significant contribution to higher and professional studies and average respondent may be 30
students from B.Tech, MCA and MBA courses. The methodologies should adopted as- sampling
technique and data collection mainly on questionnaire basis. This will six-phased plan viz.
Literature survey, Focus Group Research, Identifying issues, developing a questionnaire, and pilot
testing, Final survey and data collection, Data Analysis and Interpretation and Conclusion and thesis
writing.

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