Abstract:
It is universally accepted that soft skills are equally significant as hard skills for
professional development, however the manufacturing industries in Pakistan is still unaware
of the different soft skills that could influence engineer’s performance. There is a need to
identify such soft skills which have more effect on the task performance of the engineer. The
aim of this study is to address soft skills issues faced by the engineers and the impact of those
soft skills issues on the performance of an engineer. Questionnaire survey was used, and the
targeted population was engineers of Pakistan. Cluster sampling and Stratified sampling
technique was used is this study. Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore were taken as clusters
and electronics industry was taken as strata. Total 450 questionnaires were floated among the
respondents and 145 responses were used for the analysis of this study. Results shows a
positive influence of soft skills on the task performance of the engineers and the most
important soft skill found was conflict management skill in electronics industries of Pakistan.
This study intends to prove that soft skills are equally important, and they play a very major
role on the task performance of an engineer. Through this the organizations will come to
know about the advantages of training their engineers about the soft skills. Also, the
organization’s success rate will change positively.
