Examining Pre-Internship Expectations among Employers on the Students' Characteristics and Internship Program: The Empirical Study of Malaysian Government-Linked Company's University
调查马来西亚雇主对会计专业学生实习前在个人特征和实习项目上的期望，发现未来职业发展最重要，并分析了雇主人口因素与期望的差异。
This study attempts to investigate the what the emp loyers expect on the students' characteristics and the internship program itself, before the internship period. It also would like to measure whether there are significant differences between the demographic factors of emp loyers and their expectations about the students' characteristics and the internship program. The primary data collection was through self-ad ministered questionnaires which were distributed to a sample o f 1 34 firm emp loyers of 165 students that provide internship train ing in their workplace to the final year accounting students. Factor analysis and mult ivariate ANOVA have been employed in order to meet the objectives of the study. The results reveal that there are three (3) dimensions underpinning for each scale o f students' characteristics and the internship itself wh ich are the employers expecting before the accounting undergraduates undergoing for the internship period. Most of the employers ranked the future career development as the most important and relevant to the undergraduates to secure for future employ ment. Further, some significant differences between demographic factors of emp loyers and the dimensions of employers' expectation are identified and discussed.