Perceived Effects of MBA Degree on Skills Development and Career Advancement: The Case of Pakistan

Ayesha Saba,Sumaira Aslam,Aroosa Khalid,Babak Mahmood

doi:10.5539/ijbm.v6n7p207

Abstract

This study was conducted to assess the effects of MBA degree on enhancement of skills and career advancementin Pakistan .Business education is getting importance and growing day by day globally and for the sake ofassessing worthiness of this degree of business education (MBA) in developing economy of Pakistan 100professionals( 75 MBA's and 25 others) were studied. Likewise study also focuses on some intervening variablesfor instance stress management, effective communication, time management, interpersonal skills, self confidence,and analytical skills. Study was conducted in banking industry by selecting people randomly from differentmanagerial ranks. Data were collected through a well designed and structured questionnaire and pre-testing wascarried out to examine the efficiency of the instrument. Descriptive and inferential statistical tools were appliedand analyses demonstrated that MBA degree has positive effect on career advancement because it sharpensdifferent skills of MBA's and it provides basis for better opportunities and MBA's have diversified skills so theycan act as worthy managers.

Highlights

This study was conducted to assess the effects of Master in Business administration (MBA) degree on enhancement of skills and career advancement in Pakistan .Business education is getting importance and growing day by day globally and for the sake of assessing worthiness of this degree of business education (MBA) in developing economy of Pakistan 100 professionals( 75 MBA's and 25 others) were studied
These skills provide basis for good managerial jobs .Mean values of statement 1-2, show that respondents are strongly agreed with these statements and MBA's degree can produce good managerial skills & time management skills .St 3 mean values and Std.deviation value show that this statement is not showing high response of agreement
Deviation show that respondents do not strongly agree with the statement which shows that MBA degree produce skill of stress management in holders of it

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Introduction

This study was conducted to assess the effects of MBA degree on enhancement of skills and career advancement in Pakistan .Business education is getting importance and growing day by day globally and for the sake of assessing worthiness of this degree of business education (MBA) in developing economy of Pakistan 100 professionals( 75 MBA's and 25 others) were studied. This study exclusively highlights the perceived effects of MBA degree on employability and career advancement in Pakistan. To bring knowledge-driven growth requires education systems to impart higher-level skills to a rising share of the workforce, foster lifelong learning for citizens and promote international accreditation of a country’s educational institutions (Mahmood & Shafique, 2010) and introduction of professional courses in engineering, law and business is a shift toward it. There is evidence of serious changes in terms of careers offered by organizations (Littler et al, 2003), especially in the case of managers (Cappelli, 1992) and the popular conception surrounding the MBA degree is that it leads to fast www.ccsenet.org/ijbm track career success, typically construed in terms of improved salary and hierarchical position (Hay & Hodgkinson, 1996). 1) Skills development 2) In employability 3) Career advancement The following section of this paper presents a review of relevant literature and research questions; the methodology is narrated; the following section prescribes the main findings and at last conclusions are discussed

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