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SOCIAL STAKEHOLDERS APPROACH TO TRAINING OF FINANCIERS
AT VILNIAUS KOLEGIJA / UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
Artūras VITAS, Viktorija PRAPRAITĖ, Žana PROKOPOVIČIENĖ, Romualda URNIEŽIENĖ
Vilniaus Kolegija / University of Applied Sciences,
Faculty of Economics, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Abstract
Globalization and technological development promote the use of practical approaches so that the aim of
higher educational institutions is to provide graduates with competence which is important for the labor
market and their future career. High schools must strive to involve stakeholders to its community as it
increases learning, especially final professional practice skills. It is also important to pay the attention to
quality improvement and graduates entrenchment in the labor market as helping students to develop skills
which will be needed in their future career.
It is important to prepare graduates for the labor market as if this task is not the only one goal of high school
to cooperate with stakeholders. Each group of stakeholders benefits from mutual cooperation. Students feel
the benefits of cooperation because of business practice acquirement and real hands-on experience with the
opportunity to get a job. Social stakeholder’s opinion survey helps to evaluate readiness of financiers for
practical activity. The article presents the results of stakeholders approach for finance program graduates
competencies.
Keywords: social stakeholders, graduates, professional practice, labor market.
Introduction
According to L. Kaminskiene (2008) there are certain education stakeholders groups: 1)
people (students, teachers, parents of students, graduates and 2)organizations (high
schools, trade unions, non-governmental organizations, and 3)employers (regional and
national level companies, employers' organizations); 4)authorities (regional level of
government, the national government, public units).
T.J. Mr Rowley and Moldoveanu (2003) pointed that the stakeholders are involved in high
school activities led not only rational (tangible and intangible) but also on the emotional
basis. Interest coherence between stakeholders groups with different points of view has a
positive influence on stakeholders’ mobilization activities.
Social members' support the involvement into activities of the institution operate program.
Moreover, committees ensure guarantee in a serious and in-depth approach to
stakeholders’ activities. High schools must strive to involve stakeholders in its community as
it increases the study, in particular, practices as also to improve the quality of the graduates
stay in the labor market perspective, and in addition, to help students to develop those skills
which they will need in the labor market.
Relevance of the Topic
Study quality evaluation aspects are important not only for a higher education institution
but also for employers. As a result, the better future professional is prepared, the better he
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