한국생산성학회

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship among field orientedness and career development support―the traits of overseas internship program, global competencies, and employability of overseas internship program participants. The data used for this study is collected from internees who have participated or are participating in the overseas internship program operated with government’s financial support. To enhance reliability of the results, “Internees” were restricted to those who participating in the internship or working at the same company after the internship as of the survey date. This study found firstly, field orientedness and career development support have positive effect both on internal flexibility and external mobility and therefore positively affect to employability. In addition, it was found that field orientedness was more influential to internal flexibility while career development support has a greater impact in external mobility. Secondly, cross-cultural adaptability and language skills―lower factor of global competency― has positive effect both on internal flexibility and external mobility. Third, among the sub-variables of global competency, language skills have positive effect only on external mobility among the sub-variables of employment possibility, and cross-cultural adaptability has a positive effect both on internal flexibility and external mobility. Forth, global competency has mediating effect on the relationship between career development support and employability but not on the relationship between field oritentedness of the overseas internship and employability. Therefore, it is verified that employability can be increased by the mediating effect of global competency while being positively affected by field orientedness and career development support of overseas internship. Several implications can be drawn from these research results. Firstly, overseas internship need to be expended and more structured as a part of workplace learning, universities also need a global approach to improve students’ employability. Secondly, it is necessary to induce multi-national corporations or companies of host country to participate in the program since internees are less exposed to cross-cultural. Lastly, global competency and employability can be used as important outcome indicator.