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Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus

Internship program is an opportunity for students to gain practical knowledge and skills, as well as cultivate a personality on how to deal with the real working environment. As such, an effective internship program is essential to the career development of students. Finding from empirical review su...

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Main Authors: Tan, Owee Kowang, Goh, Jiun Kai, Goh, Chin Fei, Hii, Puong Koh, Lim, Kim Yew
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Published: Res Militaris 2023
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spelling my.utm.1086332024-11-24T06:55:59Z http://eprints.utm.my/108633/ Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus Tan, Owee Kowang Goh, Jiun Kai Goh, Chin Fei Hii, Puong Koh Lim, Kim Yew H Social Sciences (General) Internship program is an opportunity for students to gain practical knowledge and skills, as well as cultivate a personality on how to deal with the real working environment. As such, an effective internship program is essential to the career development of students. Finding from empirical review suggested that the questions of how the effectiveness of undergraduate internship programs (EUIP) should be reported realistically and how to identify and prioritize EUIP improvement are remains ambiguous. Hence, this research aims to incorporate multiple measures to assess EUIP for a business school in Malaysia. Additionally, the research also aims to identify and prioritize the EUIP improvement by the evaluation of focus index. Based on empirical finding, this research views EUIP from the perspective of personal, interpersonal and employment impacts that driven by the internship programmes. The research is quantitative based and focused on students from a business school in Malaysia. Structured questionnaire was distributed to 123 students who have completed their internship programmes in year 2020and 2021, with 96 of them responded. EUIP is analysed via descriptive analysis by incorporating measures of importance and implementation level. Additionally, focus index for the 3 EUIP constructs are calculated to identify and prioritize improvement focus. Finding from the analysis result reveals that the average of EUIP for all the 3 constructs are above 80%,which is suggested as high level of effectiveness, while interpersonal impact is regarded by respondents as under-focused. The research contributes methodologically by outlining a new approach for the assessment of effectiveness as well as the identification and prioritization of improvement focus. Res Militaris 2023 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/108633/1/TanOweeKowang2023_UndergraduateInternshipProgramtheEffectiveness.pdf Tan, Owee Kowang and Goh, Jiun Kai and Goh, Chin Fei and Hii, Puong Koh and Lim, Kim Yew (2023) Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus. Res Militaris, 13 (1). pp. 835-843. ISSN 2265-6294 https://resmilitaris.net/issue-content/undergraduate-internship-program-the-effectiveness-and-improvement-focus-882 NA
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Tan, Owee Kowang
Goh, Jiun Kai
Goh, Chin Fei
Hii, Puong Koh
Lim, Kim Yew
Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus
description Internship program is an opportunity for students to gain practical knowledge and skills, as well as cultivate a personality on how to deal with the real working environment. As such, an effective internship program is essential to the career development of students. Finding from empirical review suggested that the questions of how the effectiveness of undergraduate internship programs (EUIP) should be reported realistically and how to identify and prioritize EUIP improvement are remains ambiguous. Hence, this research aims to incorporate multiple measures to assess EUIP for a business school in Malaysia. Additionally, the research also aims to identify and prioritize the EUIP improvement by the evaluation of focus index. Based on empirical finding, this research views EUIP from the perspective of personal, interpersonal and employment impacts that driven by the internship programmes. The research is quantitative based and focused on students from a business school in Malaysia. Structured questionnaire was distributed to 123 students who have completed their internship programmes in year 2020and 2021, with 96 of them responded. EUIP is analysed via descriptive analysis by incorporating measures of importance and implementation level. Additionally, focus index for the 3 EUIP constructs are calculated to identify and prioritize improvement focus. Finding from the analysis result reveals that the average of EUIP for all the 3 constructs are above 80%,which is suggested as high level of effectiveness, while interpersonal impact is regarded by respondents as under-focused. The research contributes methodologically by outlining a new approach for the assessment of effectiveness as well as the identification and prioritization of improvement focus.
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author Tan, Owee Kowang
Goh, Jiun Kai
Goh, Chin Fei
Hii, Puong Koh
Lim, Kim Yew
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Goh, Jiun Kai
Goh, Chin Fei
Hii, Puong Koh
Lim, Kim Yew
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title Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus
title_short Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus
title_full Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus
title_fullStr Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus
title_full_unstemmed Undergraduate internship program the effectiveness and improvement focus
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