Management of Educational Organization: The Effectiveness of Soft Skill on Rejuvenating Education Curriculum

Abstract

Business education is a course that provides skills for individual to gain employment in government department of business community. To give a relevant training in business education, soft skills must be built into the curriculum of business education on which it intends to give instruction. It is seen that the present business education programmer curriculum is inadequate with regard to soft skills for job creation, employability and contribute to the growth and development of the nation. The paper sought to examine the deep-rooted issue in business education curriculum and soft skills. It further highlighted the importance of soft skills and how soft skills can be built into curriculum of business education to equip recipients with business skills, habits, attitudes, knowledge and concepts for personal use and for entry into the business community as employees or employers of labor. The paper adopted a methodology of documentary analysis and a review of the relevant literature. The study found that business education should not be divorced from soft skills to make recipients meaningfully exist with others as productive and beneficial members of the society. To re-establish evincing strength and healthy business education curriculum, the paper recommended that government should come up with a new policy of governance of tertiary academic institutions to accommodate soft skills in the curriculum of business education for job creation and employability.