Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Sunil Ramlall - Youtube - Positive OB

Youtube - Sunil Ramlall - Positive Organizational Behavior

Positive psychological principles and subsequently positive organizational behavior (POB) have

become increasingly prevalent in the workplace in recent years. We have witnessed many

struggles in the global economy where organizations across the world have experienced layoffs,

lower productivity, lower employee morale, and generally struggling to be competitive. Given

these negative environments, what can organizations do across the world to enhance the positive

practices that will create benefits for all of the stakeholders through POB? We also identify gaps

that exist in organizational practices and how positive organizational behavior can be integrated

to build sustainable organizations.
 
 




 

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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Soft skills in the Accounting Profession

Soft Skills in the Accounting Profession

Advances in Research
2(11): 645-654, 2014, Article no. AIR.2014.11.008
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The Value of Soft-Skills in the Accounting
Profession: Perspectives of Current Accounting Students

Sunil Ramlall1* and Dhanmati Ramlall2*
1Strategic HRM Consulting, LLC, USA.
2Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, USA.

ABSTRACT
With employers increasingly demanding a greater range of softer skills such as effective communication, the paper is intended to identify current accounting students’ perspectives on soft skills, identify their self-assessed competence in the respective soft skills, and suggest ways in which accounting students can gain soft skills. We assessed students’ level of perception/knowledge of soft skills, its’ importance and their self-assessment of their level of possession of these skills. With a sample size of 313 participants, we found that there were fewer gaps in what students perceived as being important in the accounting profession and how prepared they are in fulfilling the expectations. In addition, we found that the universities were placing more emphasis on developing these soft skills that have shown to be beneficial in students’ careers.

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