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Indian
Inc facing quality manpower crunch: Survey
Sunday November 07, 2010 02:54:35 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
India Inc is facing a severe shortage of skilled manpower as the
undergraduates in the general stream of arts, commerce and science
churned out by the country's educational institutions are not up
to the mark, reveals a survey.
"Employability quotient of the undergraduates in India reveals
this unsettling reality that GenNext is woefully short of soft
skills and vocational training to take on the responsibilities of
corporate sector management," said the survey, conducted by the
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and CVoter.
The survey on employability quotient of undergraduates in India
found that only three out of 10 respondents were satisfied with
their fresh recruits in the past one year.
New undergraduates lack reliability, integrity, self motivation,
self discipline and empathy for other workers and management, they
said.
Ninety percent of the respondents believe that self discipline is
a strong attribute employees must possess, while 60 percent said
that their present employees are self-disciplined.
Fifty percent of the respondents felt that their present crop of
employees are self motivated, an attribute that 90 percent of them
consider important at the workplace.
Out of 10, eight respondents felt that ability to design a process
to meet desired results is an important skill-set that their
employees must have while only six out of them felt that their
employees had it.
About 83 percent of the respondents acknowledged the need for good
written communication as a key skill for performing the job.
However, only about 60 percent felt that their present employees
have the desired skill.
Asked about the "willingness to learn", almost all the respondents
considered a must-have quality for their employees.
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