The Indonesian Undergraduate Students' Perceptions Of Career Choice In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Multinational Corporations

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions in career choice whether in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Multinational Corporations (MNCs) based on sample of Indonesian undergraduate students. The main aim of this study was to determine if gender and academic backg...

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Main Author:	Putro, Yudhan Nuswantoro
Format:	Thesis
Language:	eng eng
Published:	2008
Subjects:	HF5001-6182 Business
Online Access:	https://etd.uum.edu.my/257/1/Yudhan_Nuswantoro_Putro.pdf https://etd.uum.edu.my/257/2/Yudhan_Nuswantoro_Putro.pdf
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spelling	my-uum-etd.2572013-07-24T12:06:22Z The Indonesian Undergraduate Students' Perceptions Of Career Choice In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Multinational Corporations 2008-06-23 Putro, Yudhan Nuswantoro College of Business (COB) Faculty of Business Management HF5001-6182 Business The main purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions in career choice whether in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Multinational Corporations (MNCs) based on sample of Indonesian undergraduate students. The main aim of this study was to determine if gender and academic background influenced these perceptions. In addition, this study tried to identify several job factors that influenced their choice. A sample of 150 Indonesian undergraduate students was used by distributed a set of questionnaire. An original version of questionnaire from previous research conducted by Teo and Poon (1994) was used. This questionnaire was pre-tested before distributed to the main respondent. The main purpose of pre-testing was to determine the understandability of the items in the survey questionnaire and to identify potential weaknesses and problems in the data collection and analysis. The findings of the study indicated that from ten academic majors surveyed, all students preferred working in MNCs than SMEs. Three job factors that significantly influenced students' perceptions working in SMEs are responsibility given (RG), and involvement in decision making(IDM). While pay, working conditions (WC), managerial quality and relationships (MQR), and responsibility given (RG) were significantly influenced students' working in MNCs. 2008-06 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/257/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/257/1/Yudhan_Nuswantoro_Putro.pdf application/pdf eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/257/2/Yudhan_Nuswantoro_Putro.pdf application/pdf eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
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description	The main purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions in career choice whether in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and Multinational Corporations (MNCs) based on sample of Indonesian undergraduate students. The main aim of this study was to determine if gender and academic background influenced these perceptions. In addition, this study tried to identify several job factors that influenced their choice. A sample of 150 Indonesian undergraduate students was used by distributed a set of questionnaire. An original version of questionnaire from previous research conducted by Teo and Poon (1994) was used. This questionnaire was pre-tested before distributed to the main respondent. The main purpose of pre-testing was to determine the understandability of the items in the survey questionnaire and to identify potential weaknesses and problems in the data collection and analysis. The findings of the study indicated that from ten academic majors surveyed, all students preferred working in MNCs than SMEs. Three job factors that significantly influenced students' perceptions working in SMEs are responsibility given (RG), and involvement in decision making(IDM). While pay, working conditions (WC), managerial quality and relationships (MQR), and responsibility given (RG) were significantly influenced students' working in MNCs.
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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Putro, Yudhan Nuswantoro
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title	The Indonesian Undergraduate Students' Perceptions Of Career Choice In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Multinational Corporations
title_short	The Indonesian Undergraduate Students' Perceptions Of Career Choice In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Multinational Corporations
title_full	The Indonesian Undergraduate Students' Perceptions Of Career Choice In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Multinational Corporations
title_fullStr	The Indonesian Undergraduate Students' Perceptions Of Career Choice In Small And Medium-Sized Enterprises And Multinational Corporations
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