Influence of Firm Size on the Competencies Required to Management Engineers in the Jordanian Telecommunications Sector

Autor/inn/en	Conchado Peiró, Andrea; Bas Cerdá, María del Carmen; Gharaibeh, Khaled M.; Kaylani, Hazem
Titel	Influence of Firm Size on the Competencies Required to Management Engineers in the Jordanian Telecommunications Sector
Quelle	In: European Journal of Engineering Education, 42 (2017) 5, S.547-560 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0304-3797
DOI	10.1080/03043797.2016.1197890
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Organization Size (Groups); Engineering; Technical Occupations; Telecommunications; Employer Attitudes; Problem Solving; Strategic Planning; Employers; Questionnaires; Competence; Factor Analysis; Labor Market; Engineering Education; Graduate Students; Jordan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Organization size; Unternehmensgröße; Maschinenbau; Technical occupation; Technischer Beruf; Telekommunikationstechnik; Arbeitgeberinteresse; Problemlösen; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Fragebogen; Kompetenz; Faktorenanalyse; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Ingenieurausbildung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin
Abstract	The objective of this study is to identify the competencies required to achieve success in the transition from higher education to the labour market based on the perceptions of employers. This paper analyses the assessments made by a group of engineering company employers. An item-battery of 20 competencies was grouped into 3 dimensions by using factor analysis. Subsequently, respondents' scores were also clustered into three groups and characterised through contingency tables. The competencies demanded by employers were grouped into business and finance, problem-solving and strategic planning. Significant differences were found between responses from employers working in medium and small companies, who placed more importance on competencies related to problem-solving and strategic planning, and employers in big companies, who were more concerned about the difficulties of finding well-trained graduates. The findings from this paper have important implications for research in the areas of higher education and organisations that usually employ graduate engineers. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01