Sustainable Soft Skill Development: Study Of Self-Reliance As An Effective Tool For Management Students

The education industry is rapidly changing and as time has progressed the distinction between hard and soft skills has come forth and today both occupy an important role as compared to yester years. Soft skills has gained importance in the recent few years but in spite of that many management colleges have overlooked the same and not included many skills to be imparted as a part of the course curriculum. Education in the sector of sustainable development for enabling students who are vigilant, sensitized and analytical is the approach the institutions need to adopt for the future. In Soft Skills, Self Reliance is the major component for imparting training to achieve a sustainable development of management students is to be embedded in the curriculum. The purpose of the study is to estimate the impact of development of self-reliance skill in management students as a result of soft skills training programs. Methodology used for the study is Experimental and Control Group designs have been used over a sample of 150 students using a structured questionnaire method. As per the findings of study, the impact of self-reliance skills training has revealed that there are significant differences and with such training sessions, skills necessary for sustainable development can be enhanced. Hence, Educational institutions, government and corporates must embed self-reliance as an indispensible tool for sustainable skill development. Key Words: Self Reliance, sustainability, soft skills training program, skill development Policy