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Analyzing Managerial Skills for Employability in Graduate Students in Economics, Administration and Accounting Sciences

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  • Patricia Andino-González

    (Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Administrativas y Contables, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa 11101, Honduras)

  • Alejandro Vega-Muñoz

    (Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Central de Chile, Santiago 8330507, Chile
    Facultad de Ciencias Empresariales, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique 1110939, Chile)

  • Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda

    (Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción 4090541, Chile
    Facultad de Ingeniería y Negocios, Universidad de Las Américas, Concepción 4090940, Chile)

Abstract

The study analyzes how graduate students in economics, administration and accounting perceive their managerial skills for employability, with the aim of determining its associated variables to improve the educational processes of future managerial leaders. It focuses on the importance of developing transferable skills that meet current and future job demands. To measure the perception of skills, a structured and duly validated questionnaire (Employability Skills 2000+) was used, answered by 225 graduate students in Economics, Administrative and Accounting Sciences in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The data obtained from the application were analyzed using the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) method with the FACTOR software. The CFA generated an adaptation of the original scale with 21 variables. The resulting scale determined three predominant factors: personal management skills, fundamental skills and teamwork skills, which presented good consistency and validity, allowing us to make conclusions regarding employability skills in the context studied. The findings show the existence of a correlation between fundamental skills and variables such as work experience, employment status and gender, as well as a high correlation between teamwork skills, work experience and employability conditions.

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  • Patricia Andino-González & Alejandro Vega-Muñoz & Guido Salazar-Sepúlveda, 2024. "Analyzing Managerial Skills for Employability in Graduate Students in Economics, Administration and Accounting Sciences," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-16, August.
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