The Relationship between Work Experience and The Job Performance of Technical Lecturers

Abstract

The challenge of TVET institutions is to gain people’s acceptance of the quality of the ecosystem that develops competent graduates who benefit the nation and industry. However, the competencies of teaching staff gain people debate on the reform of improving the qualification of teaching staff. This study presents the idea and relationship between work experience and job performance of technical lecturers in an organisation. It is recommended that more experienced teachers be employed to be more positive on people’s acceptance of TVET institutions and work performance. The performance of the lecturers in TVET is important to make the Technical Schools and Colleges in Malaysia select institutions for parents to send their children to and choose the TVET field as a carrier path. This paper discusses the issues of improving TVET lecturers with experience and strategies introduced to overcome the negative perception toward the competencies of technical teaching staff as curriculum relevancy. Based on the literature, this study attempt to find the link between improving the quality of teachers in TVET related to raising the quality of technical and vocational education and enhancing job performance.