Executive Perceptions of the Top 10 Soft Skills Needed in Today’s Workplace

By M. Robles. 2012

1,502 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Media Technology, Social Psychology

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In Education

1. Susan Dean
2. M. Cisi
3. Siti Nur Syuhada Musa
4. Khoo Kai Le
5. Benjamin Garner
6. Siti Raba’ah Hamzah
7. Chiara Ghislieri
8. Federica Emanuel

In Media Technology

1. Susan Dean
2. Benjamin Garner
3. S. Anthony

In Social Psychology

1. M. Cisi
2. Joshua Arritola
3. Susan Dean
4. Joy A. York
5. Siti Nur Syuhada Musa
6. Khoo Kai Le
7. Benjamin Garner
8. Siti Raba’ah Hamzah

Citations in the corpus

• EMPLOYERS’ VIEWS ON IMPORTANCE OF ENGLISH PROFICIENCY AND COMMUNICATION SKILL FOR EMPLOYABILITY IN MALAYSIA (2017, background): “Later Schramm (1954) brought in the idea of feedback, which transforms the notion of the linear transmission of messages to a continuous process of messages and feedback. Figure 1 shows the interaction between the sender and receiver in Schramm’s model of communication. With the definitions of profi”
• Communication Competence, Leadership Behaviors, and Employee Outcomes in Supervisor-Employee Relationships (2015, background): “A combination of both knowledge/technical expertise and interpersonal communication skills is needed in order to be successful and to equip employees and supervisors (Robles, 2012).”
• The soft skills of accounting graduates: perceptions versus expectations (2019, background): “The ability to work in a team, that is to be cooperative, agreeable, supportive and helpful (Robles, 2012), is an example of strong interpersonal skills.”
• Teaching Soft Skills to Business Students (2016, background): “Recent reports have indicated that soft skills are in demand by employers, and yet many employees lack these essential attributes (Klaus, 2007; Mitchell, Skinner, & White, 2010; Robles, 2012; “The Value of Soft,” 2015; Yarbrough, 2015).”
• Soft Skills Needed for the 21st-Century Workforce (2019, background): “The soft skills identified as important in the workplace include communications, teamwork, motivation, problem-solving, enthusiasm, and trust (Chute, 2012; Ellis, Kisling, & Hackworth, 2014; Rasul, Rauf, & Mansor, 2013; Robles, 2012; Wahl et al., 2012).”
• Soft Skills for Entry-Level Engineers: What Employers Want (2021, background): “In contrast to technical knowledge or abilities, the term ‘soft skills’ is used loosely in literature to denote a disparate set of personal attributes, traits, attitudes, and behaviors [4,17].”
• The mediating role of career decision self-efficacy on the relationship of career emotional intelligence and self-esteem with career adaptability among university students (2021, background): “Besides having specialized skills and knowledge, university graduates should also be flexible, have a positive attitude towards work, be self-motivated, and be willing to learn new skills and acquire new technical knowledge (Robles, 2012).”