LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 11 November 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Interpersonal Skills – A Pragmatic Approach to Promote
Multi-faceted Personality among Engineering Students
Employing Role Play as a Tool – A Report

K. Venkata Ramana M.A., Ph.D. Scholar
Parvathi V., Ph.D.

Abstract

Interpersonal skills are a pre-requisite for engineering students as they work in teams. A professional, working in a team needs technical expertise along with the ability to move with the members of the team to accomplish the project. It is important to balance technical expertise on one hand and orient the team on the other to accomplish the project. It requires team spirit and interpersonal skills. Unfortunately, majority of the engineering students lack interpersonal skills as they are trained to work individually while preparing for entrance examinations to seek admission. Hence, they are suffering both in their career and personal life, “Studies say 90 percent of executive failures are attributable to interpersonal competencies” (Patricia A. Wheeler, 2005). The present paper made use of a student centric activity employing role play as a tool to develop interpersonal skills while promoting multi-faceted personality of the engineering students.

Introduction

Majority of the engineers work in teams and hence Interpersonal skills have become a pre-requisite. They have to develop interpersonal skills to accomplish the project on hand as they need “goal-directed behaviours used in face-to-face interactions which are effective in bringing about a desired state of affairs” (Hayes, 2000: p.291). According to Rungapadiachy, interpersonal skills may be defined broadly as “those skills which one needs in order to communicate effectively with another person or a group of people” (1999, p.193).

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K. Venkta Ramana, M.A.
Assistant Professor of English
Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology
Gandipet, Hyderabad-500075
Andhra Pradesh, India
kvramana123@gmail.com

Parvathi V., Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Head
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad College of Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
Hyderabad – 500 072
Andhra Pradesh, India
parvathivudumula@yahoo.com

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