Employers’ Feedback on the Quality of Work and Workplace Performance Inputs to Career Development Strategies

The study aims to identify the key areas the institution should be focusing and strengthening while preparing the students so that they would become effective in the delivery of quality work in their workplace. More specifically, it will present the work of LPU B graduates in terms of its leadership brands such as competence, commitment, credibility and caring. It also determines the workplace performance in terms of employee knowledge, skills, and attitude; test the relationship between quality of work and workplace performance as perceived by the managers, unit heads and immediate supervisors who directly handles the LPU graduates. and lastly, the employers’ input presented shall serve as input to Career Development strategies. Descriptive survey method is used in this study The participants of the study are 180 employers, department and Section heads, immediate superiors and supervisors in CALABARZON who directly handle the employed graduates of Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas. It made use of arithmetic mean and percentage distribution while weighted mean was also used to determine the quality of work and performance of the graduates. The study revealed that the quality of work of the graduates of LPUB in terms of the University Leadership Brand is very good in terms of competence. Alumni shows willingness to always serve the customers while spotting and acting on opportunities that colleagues or leaders have not noticed is something that they must develop. The researcher recommended that the University consider Career programs in strengthening soft skills of the students through continued linkage and collaboration with the partner industries in order to prepare the students in a more diverse and modern world of work, create and promote an environment that encourage a higher level of acquisition and development of skills, knowledge and attitude of students through planned, deliberate and systematic learning process in order to improve personal and professional effectiveness

Keywords – career development, job performance, leadership brand, quality of work