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Influence of career anchors, work values and personality traits toward employability orientation among Malaysian university students


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Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva and Abdul Hamid, Jamaliah (2014) Influence of career anchors, work values and personality traits toward employability orientation among Malaysian university students. International Education Studies, 7 (9). pp. 15-23. ISSN 1913-9020; ESSN: 1913-9039

Abstract

Work environment is facing numerous challenges and this entails organizations to better understand the phenomenon of employability orientation. Thus, the primary aim of this study is to determine the level of employability orientation among university students and its influencing factors. This is a quantitative study whereby a total of 711 undergraduates were randomly selected from public universities in Malaysia to participate in the study. The dependent variable of this study was employability orientation and the independent variables were career anchors, work values and personality traits. The principal result of this study showed that there were eight sub-dimensions that contributed around 52.0% of the variation in employability orientation. It is believed that the findings will provide some interesting input in understanding the complexities associated with employability orientation among university students.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Educational Studies
Institute for Social Science Studies
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v7n9p15
Publisher: Canadian Center of Science and Education
Keywords: Career anchors; Employability orientation; Personality traits; Work values
Depositing User: Nurul Ainie Mokhtar
Date Deposited: 09 Dec 2015 00:42
Last Modified: 30 Mar 2016 08:33
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URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/34178
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