STUDY ON SOFT SKILL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR MANAGEMENT STUDENTS

The higher education in India as well as the market scenario and requirement is changing very fast and moving ahead due to stiff competition. A decade ago, those individuals who had a brilliant academic record with added work experience were well sought after by most of the corporate institutions with a fixed range of pay as remuneration. But today hard skills and experience are not sufficient enough for the way in and growth in the corporate world. Employers prefer to hire and promote those persons who are resourceful, ethical, and self directed and motivated with good communication and soft skills. Shortage of soft skills in the candidates has resulted in low hiring by corporate. Corporate giants have also made its point clear regarding soft skills training programme to be included in the management courses and will surely have a positive overall development in the course.

In spite of such immense significance of soft skills, many management colleges are hesitant to incorporate soft skills training in the curriculum of management courses. This paper is based on the improvement training and development programme has on the students regularly exposed to soft skills sessions, activities  and those who are deprived of the same.