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标题：Infopreneur: Education for Economic Growth
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作者：Saiful Farik Mat Yatin ; Hasnah Shuhaimi ; Aszunarni Ayob 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2018
卷号：8
期号：12
页码：1460-1474
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v8-i12/5250
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：Information management is a cornerstone of any organization, along with operations management, customer management and resource management. Managing and recording what the organization creates, use and maintain the information and preserve it in secure archive is paramount to the organization success. Failure to manage this information will expose the business to potential risks and liabilities. These issues will be the challenges for university graduates to become versatile and competent information professional. This paper aimed to determine the employability trend from the students of the Faculty of Information Management (FIM) Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and if these graduates and their academic-acquired skills and competencies are related to their field of study in their present occupation. This paper also investigates the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education that has been embedded in the university curriculum where UiTM has been awarded as the Entrepreneurial University for three consecutive years (2012-2015) by the Minister of Education, Malaysia. Three years’ data were analyzed from Graduate Tracer Study questionnaire (2013-2015). The data focus on graduates from the Faculty of Information Management (FIM) as they are the potential respondent in becoming inforpreneur. It was analyzed descriptively and showed through tabulated and diagrammatized form to discuss the findings. The results proved that FIM produces marketable and appropriately trained graduates but the majority of them not working in course-related jobs. FIM graduates are still low in initiating their own business, failure in exploring the potential growth in information management industry. Therefore, in depth understanding about the entrepreneurship education, potential business of information management (IM) industry such as Commercial Record Centre (CRC) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) etc. need to be address so that FIM graduates aware of the potential in this industry and can aggressively initiating their own business in future thus reducing the employability issues that faced by the university.