Journal of Management Policies and Practices

Dynamics of Gender, Job Attributions and Work Environment Expectations on the Post-University Job Preferences of Ghanaian Undergraduate Students
Majoreen Osafroadu Amankwah, PhD; Mohammed-Aminu Sanda, PhD

Abstract
This study sought to understand whether the job preferences of university students nearing graduation in a developing economy is significantly and mutually related to their gender, as well as their job attributions, and work environment expectations. Guided by a cross-sectional research design and quantitative approach, data was collected from a sample of 994 year-three and year-four undergraduate students using a close-ended questionnaire. Correlation and multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to determine if the students‟ gender and their expected job attribution factors related to their job preferences. Based on the analyses, it was found that only the students‟ expectation of job varieties significantly related to their job preferences. It is concluded that though a significant and mutual relationship exist between the job preferences of university students and their expectations of job varieties, such preferences are not related to their gender, and other job values factors, such as their expected abilities to use their skills, their expectation of extrinsic rewards, their need for work life balance, and how interesting they expected a job to be. This paper provides useful insights, from developing country context, on university students‟ future-oriented behavioural dynamics on job preference determination when near graduation.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/jmpp.v9n1a2