Impact of Master in Business Administration Program to its Graduates’ Job Performance

Taking graduate studies is a lifelong learning commitment that brings more opportunities for personal growth and professional development. It is not just a status symbol but rather an obligation that builds greater responsibility to improve performance. This study aims to identify the employment status of the MBA graduates from one Philippine Higher Education Institution. It is also the focus of this study to describe the impact of MBA program after graduation in terms of job performance. Descriptive type of research method was utilized in the study with 61 MBA graduates. Result showed that all surveyed MBA graduates or 100 percent are presently employed locally during the data gathering. The MBA degree program gives them better opportunity to get new jobs, to be in a regular or permanent status and be considered for a job promotion. Furthermore, salaries and benefits as well as career challenge are some of the common reasons of MBA graduates for staying in their current jobs. They see themselves in five-years time as productive employees with higher responsibility who contribute to the attainment of company’s vision. They believed that the MBA program improves the way they perform their respective work assignments in relation to personal and professional growth. It enhances their job performance and interest to further commit their time and effort to better serve all the stakeholders. The finding of the study is an evidence that improving one’s knowledge is one way of breaking mediocrity. Understanding how people will benefit from graduate studies is an edge to see clearly the full potential in continuously improving the performance.

Keywords: commitment, competence, credibility and collaboration