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Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results

Engineering organizations demand soft skills of engineers to augment its business worldwide. Technical skills alone are never sufficient for engineers to perform workplace jobs efficiently in this age of industrial and commercial advancement. This study aims to investigate oral communication barrier...

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Main Authors: Kakepoto, Inayatullah, Said, Hamdan, Buriro, Ghulam Saqib, Habil, Hadina
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Published: IISTE 2013
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L Education
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/40479/
https://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/RHSS/article/view/6911/7065
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spelling my.utm.404792019-03-31T08:31:24Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/40479/ Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results Kakepoto, Inayatullah Said, Hamdan Buriro, Ghulam Saqib Habil, Hadina L Education Engineering organizations demand soft skills of engineers to augment its business worldwide. Technical skills alone are never sufficient for engineers to perform workplace jobs efficiently in this age of industrial and commercial advancement. This study aims to investigate oral communication barriers of engineering students that can potentially influence their job performance at workplace. One hundred (100) engineering students were surveyed from an engineering university of Pakistan. Since respondents were drawn as only final year engineering students thus, purposive sampling method was employed. Data were analyzed statistically using computer based software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The gathered information was coded and percentages were determined for oral communication barrier variables included in the questionnaire. The results of the study indicated that poor English language, fear and anxiety, lack of motivation and overcrowded classroom were oral communication barriers of engineering students. The results are in line with other communication studies on oral communication barriers of engineering students available in literature review. These findings would assist engineering universities of Pakistan to prepare better engineers for the workplace. IISTE 2013 Article PeerReviewed Kakepoto, Inayatullah and Said, Hamdan and Buriro, Ghulam Saqib and Habil, Hadina (2013) Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results. Research on Humanities and Social Sciences, 3 (10). pp. 1-6. ISSN 2222-2863 https://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/RHSS/article/view/6911/7065
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topic L Education
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Kakepoto, Inayatullah
Said, Hamdan
Buriro, Ghulam Saqib
Habil, Hadina
Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results
description Engineering organizations demand soft skills of engineers to augment its business worldwide. Technical skills alone are never sufficient for engineers to perform workplace jobs efficiently in this age of industrial and commercial advancement. This study aims to investigate oral communication barriers of engineering students that can potentially influence their job performance at workplace. One hundred (100) engineering students were surveyed from an engineering university of Pakistan. Since respondents were drawn as only final year engineering students thus, purposive sampling method was employed. Data were analyzed statistically using computer based software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The gathered information was coded and percentages were determined for oral communication barrier variables included in the questionnaire. The results of the study indicated that poor English language, fear and anxiety, lack of motivation and overcrowded classroom were oral communication barriers of engineering students. The results are in line with other communication studies on oral communication barriers of engineering students available in literature review. These findings would assist engineering universities of Pakistan to prepare better engineers for the workplace.
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author Kakepoto, Inayatullah
Said, Hamdan
Buriro, Ghulam Saqib
Habil, Hadina
author_facet Kakepoto, Inayatullah
Said, Hamdan
Buriro, Ghulam Saqib
Habil, Hadina
author_sort Kakepoto, Inayatullah
title Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results
title_short Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results
title_full Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results
title_fullStr Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results
title_full_unstemmed Beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of Pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results
title_sort beyond the technical barriers: oral communication barriers of engineering students of pakistan for workplace environment: preliminary results
publisher IISTE
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/40479/
https://iiste.org/Journals/index.php/RHSS/article/view/6911/7065
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