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Basic Managerial Skills of Graduate Students of Economics and Informatics: Case Study

Possessing managerial skills is very important in the entrepreneurship process and a lot of success factors of the business itself depends on the level of developnet of those skills. The lack of managerial skills leads to failure of companies. In this paper, we are exploring basic managerial skills of final year graduate students of Informatics and Economics. Those fields are part of social sciences and are considered as leading factors in the process of establishing new enterprises. Our sample consists of 116 students from one of the faculties of the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Data was collected through a questionnaire divided into three groups: general data about the respondents, managerial skills and entrepreneurial intention. The study aims to identify differences between two study programmes, Informatics and Economics, based on their grade in developing those skills. Those studies have different curricula and obligations within every course. Five hypotheses were formulated regarding the differences in the level of development of general managerial skills, interpersonal managerial skills, communication managerial skills and group managerial skills between students of Informatics and Economics. Analysis was performed by means of descriptive statistics and cluster analysis. The results show that students of Informatics have higher development of basic managerial skills, specifically group skills, even though students of Economics study about those skill more extensively than the students of Informatics. The results show that there are important external factors which accelerate the development of basic managerial skills and the curriculum is one of many internal factors. In the future research we will consider bigger sample to increase representativeness of the results and include students of various studies.

business success, managerial skills, study of Informatics, study of Economics

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