Journal of English Language Teaching

Teaching Etiquette to Graduate Students in the English Classroom to Accelerate the Onboarding Process at their Future Workplace

Parvathi

Research Scholar, Hindustan University

C. Indira

Professor, Dept. of Languages, Hindustan University

Keywords: Teaching Etiquette, Career opportunities

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Abstract

A study was conducted to determine if teaching etiquette to graduate students in the English classroom would accelerate the onboarding process at their future workplace. The methodology adopted included aggregation of common ten etiquette requirements across three divergent work places, setting up of a questionnaire that identified if a particular etiquette in a work place was a pre-requisite to joining the work place, was taught from basics as part of onboarding process and if it was mandatory for continuance of the fresher at the workplace. The study revealed that etiquette is considered important by 62.91% of the participants and communicating with verbal, non-verbal, written and listening etiquette with a score of 66.44% is the most sought after etiquette proving that etiquette need to be taught in the English classroom. Keywords: Etiquette, Onboarding acceleration, Future workplace

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References

This white paper is an essence of the thesis titled “Teaching Etiquette to Graduate Students in the English Classroom to Accelerate the Onboarding Process at their Future Workplace” submitted by the author and study researcher for M.Phil. degree at Hindustan University, Chennai, India during the academic year 2014-2015 under the guidance of Dr. C. Indira, Professor, Dept. of Languages, Hindustan University.

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