Zeitschrift für Hochschuldidaktik, No. 2000/2-3
Teaching and Staff Development at Austrian Universities

Hanns Peter EULER, Rudolf KERN and Marlies TSCHEMER (Linz, Austria)

Extrafunctional Competences as a Basic Occupational Qualification and their Teaching in Social and Economics Studies

This contribution deals with the basic qualifications of graduated Austrian students of social sciences economics to play occupational roles and their social competence. Data from a nationwide inquiry have been analyzed, referring to graduates from 1988 to 1994. Occupational requirements and expectations, experienced at the beginning of their occupational life, were compared with the contents and results of university education. One of the essential findings was ,tha tnearly all of extrafunctional requirements on the job, like social skills, management abilities, basic motivations etc. were not provided by the university in an adequate manner. There are considerable differences in matching or mismatching occupational requirements, depending on the kind of expected skills and abilities. The use of factor analysis shows three dimensions of extra functional competences, which are described in this article.

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