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Some businesses find that their new employees lack basic interpersonal skills such as cooperative skills. What are the causes? Suggest possible solutions. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience

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The importance of interpersonal skills among employees can never be overemphasized. It has been discovered by many companies that their new employees do not have basic interpersonal skills.
This
 essay will discuss why
this
 is so and suggest measures that can be taken to improve the situation. Unlike many years ago, the university curricula has changed significantly, a lot of elective courses that teach skills needed in the market place have been replaced with more courses in the same field of study.
Hence
, graduates are only informed in their field of study and have little or no idea of any other thing thereby causing graduates to become a burden on their
first
 employer after graduation.
Also
, a company that employs people with little or no
work
 experience is prone to having
this
 challenge as people with previous
work
 experience have repeatedly proven to be more aligned with the
work
 environment and possess interpersonal skills than new graduates. Many companies have reported that they spend about forty percent of their total revenue on training new employees, which is double the amount they spent ten years ago for the same purpose. In order to prevent the negative impact of lack of interpersonal skills among new employees in the organization, management of
such
 businesses should enrol their new employees for trainings that will teach them skills like teamwork, cooperative skills and many more.
In addition
, new employees should be made to realize the negative impact of their lack
on
Suggestion
of
 the organizational goals.
This
 will help them to be self aware and consciously
work
 towards being better. Nigerian institute of personnel management
have reported
Suggestion
has reported
 that companies that train their employees achieve organizational goals more easily than those who do not. In conclusion,
although
 companies may suffer due to the lack of interpersonal skills among their new employees,
this
 can be prevented by taking adequate measures like training of these people.

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