Volume : 6, Issue : 6, June - 2017

A Study on the Prospects of Career Advancement through Higher Education among the Working Executives in the UAE

Mr C. Najmudheen, Dr B. Rameshwaran

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Working executives in the UAE have been searching for ways to enhance their career in terms of their status, designation, salary, perks, perquisites, and other fringe benefits. The researcher was interested to know the career advancement benefits that a working executive would get by pursuing higher education in the UAE. Therefore, it had been of utmost importance to study the prospects of career advancement through higher education among the working executives in the UAE.<span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> Taking the objectives of the study into account, the researcher followed a descriptive approach using the </span>simple random sampling method<b>. </b><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The sample frame of the study comprises those candidates who have completed their higher education program like MBA, MSc, MCom, MCA and MA from universities like IGNOU, SMU and MKU respectively.</span></span><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The study was conducted using both primary and secondary data. The primary data were collected using questionnaire.</span><span style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> The major finding was that there is a significant relationship between career advancements and higher education among the working executives in the UAE.&nbsp;</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-indent:.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>