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International Journal of Contemporary Business StudiesVol: 4, No: 2. February, 2013 ISSN 2156-7506Available online at http://www.akpinsight.webs.com3.4 Research ObjectivesThe research objectives in this study can be categorized into general objective and specific objective.3.4.1 General ObjectivesThis section primarily describes the purpose of the research. In this study, the general objectives are:• To examine the “perceived employability” among young graduates by comparing past models ofemployability with freshly employed graduates (Fugate et al., 2004)• To examine the “dispositional employability” approach to employability with the adoptedvariables; “openness to change at work, work and career proactivity, career motivation, work andcareer resilience and work identity (Fugate, 2006)• To examine the theory of “career capital” with its adopted variables of social capital and humancapital against Bernston’s (2008) concept of “perceived employability”.3.4.2 Specific ObjectivesThe specific objectives in this study are as below:1) To examine the relationship between openness to changes at work with perceivedemployability.2) To examine the relationship between work and career proactivity with perceivedemployability.3) To examine the relationship between career motivation with perceived employability.4) To examine the relationship between work and career resilience with perceivedemployability.5) To examine the relationship between work identity with perceived employability.6) To examine the relationship between social capital with perceived employability.7) To examine the relationship between human capital with perceived employability.3.5 Research QuestionsMore specifically, this study is conducted to ravel out the following questions:1) Is openness to changes at work significantly explaining graduates’ perceivedemployability?2) Is work and career proactivity significantly explaining graduates’ perceivedemployability?3) Is career motivation significantly explaining graduates’ perceived employability?2013©Academy of Knowledge Process15