Heading Toward the Solution of Employability Issues Through Interdisciplinary Management Education

Employability issues among management students have been a topic of research as well as discussion since long. Various studies and research have been conducted with every research suggesting remedial action along with industry personnel coming forward with their requirements. The students aim for global companies to recruit them. The companies, on the other hand, are looking for competent and skilled workforce but both ends are hardly able to lessen the gap. Why is it so? Where does the problem lie? Is it with the management institutions? Is it the inability of students? Or is there a lack of understanding of industry’s requirements among the institutions? This question is what the chapter aims to address. The present chapter begins with explaining the concept of employability from different view-points and its need while also stating the skills generally agreed upon which are required to be considered employable with the 58backdrop of management field. Laying the foundation, the chapter then proceeds to address the lack of factors that have resulted in employability issues prevailing among management students. Interestingly, it was seen that it’s not a single factor but a combination of a number of factors which resulted in cropping up of employability issues such as lack of soft skills, lack of career advice, etc., while also addressing the managers’ point of view regarding the same. Further, the chapter highlights the reasons why employability issue has become prominent among management graduates with finally suggesting actions or remedies that can be taken up to tackle these issues.