Soft Skills in Enhancing the Quality of Information Systems Master Education Programme

Appropriate soft skills combination viewed as the capabilities of graduates in the field of oral and written communication, leadership, teamwork, time management, the ability to systematically think in analysing different situations, solving problems and tasks, etc., have been identified as a major competency in nearly all the professions and the main employers' demands. With completion of the studies in the field of Information Systems (IS), graduates gain knowledge and experience that only partial correspond to the needs of business employers. There is an evidence of an awareness gap resulting in deficiency of soft skills among IS graduates entering the work force that implies the need for better alignment of academic study programs with extremely rapid evolution of business needs. The main purpose of this paper was to present new master's program of information systems as a result of the MASTIS project as a basis for further discussion and researches. The new studying program has been compared with ACS/AIS 2016 recommendations in order to evaluate the enhancement of education quality with introducing soft skills in IS master's curriculum.