Annotated Bibliography - Understanding Business Research

Annotated Bibliography 1
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Subject: Management
Title: Understanding Business Research
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Annotated Bibliography 2
1. Fenech, Roberta, Priya Baguant, and Ihab Abdelwahed. “Are You Work Ready?
The Case of Emirati Women.” International Journal of Entrepreneurship (2019).
The purpose of this study is to determine the work readiness of Emirati graduating
female students from the viewpoint of Emirati female students who are already in their final
years of higher education. Four-factor work readiness is a theoretical model that has
been used in this study. Quantitative research methodology has been chosen for this research.
302 female Emirati students who were in their final year were taken as a sample so that the
findings of a large sample can be generalized. The regression analysis has been used to
determine the findings. A limitation throughout this study was that the research was done
within the framework of a higher education institution by faculty who might have
inadvertently created a feel of social desirability in a student response. All measures have
been taken to guarantee the integrity of participants as well as the institution; but, the
consequences of social desirability were not removed. The findings of this study reveal that
the level of work readiness can provide a helpful method for graduate employers to evaluate
work readiness in multidimensionality. This article further concludes that higher education
institutions are playing a significant role in making work-ready business graduates. However,
this article also provides many useful recommendations to develop more skills in students to
boost their work-ready abilities.
2. Jackson, Denise. “Business graduate employability–where are we going wrong?.”
Higher Education Research & Development 32, no. 5 (2013): 776-790.
This article works on the importance of non-technical skills in the employability of
graduates. Firstly, this article investigates the conceptual transition of learning to analyze how
this can influence the employability of the graduates. Then the author proposed a graduate
employability model that illustrates the degree to which, and how, transition effects
employability and stakeholder approaches in optimizing graduate transfer. The author
described the graduate employability model into two stages. The first stage is that higher
education needs to support students in recognizing and improving the basic non-technical
skills through the institutional program that offers a job as well as a live experience. Second,
students must move through multiple cognitive processes like memorizing, remembering,
restoring, and associating. Universities need to carry out the transition evaluation effectively
to achieve the anticipated outcome at the graduate employability assessment level.