LEVEL OF GENERIC SKILLS REQUIREMENT AMONG TECHNICIAN IN POLYTECHNIC
ABSTRACT: Generic skills are
important skills for worker that required by almost of the employments. Beside technical skills, generic skills are
designed for employee in order to produce excellent and efficient job. This research is focus on to identify the
level of generic skills desirable by technician and the level of skills that
they have from lecturer, student and technician perspective in polytechnic. The
total of research respondent is 366 which consist of lecturers, students and
technicians. The data is collected from questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS v.12
programmer to get mean score, standard deviation, factor analysis and ANOVA
testing. Research finding found that the
level of generic skills requirement among the technician is at a higher level
(mean=4.156) and also mastering in generic skills at the higher level too
(mean=4.184). Mean while, by the ANOVA analysis it is found that there is a
significant different on generic skills technician level of requirement among
the polytechnic. Through factor analysis, it is found nine (9) of generic
skills are imperative to equip by technician. Based on research finding,
hopefully a significant authority board will take a move to increase the
generic skills among technician and other staffs in polytechnic.
Author: Ahmad Bin Esa, Moh
Yusof Bin Abd Hadi, Fariza Binti Ishak, Burhannudin Bin Mohd Salleh
Journal Code: jppendidikangg120021
