Career Decision Making and Intention: a Study of Hospitality Undergraduate Students

Chuang, Ning‐Kuang; Dellmann‐Jenkins, Mary

doi:10.1177/1096348010370867

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“…These findings largely reflect highlighting perceived lack of available jobs in enhancing the attraction towards educational options (Furlong and Cartmel 2007), and provide evidence for the notion of higher education attendance as being motivated by the prospect of enhancing career or employment opportunities. This somewhat reflects previous work which indicates the role of outcome expectancies as key factors associated with career intentions (Chuang and Dellmann-Jenkins 2010). This notion was particularly noteworthy in Focus Group 3, highlighted in Extract 8, in discussions about considering employment in the context of the current labour market.…”

Section: Pre and Post Fee Risesupporting

confidence: 80%

The impact of higher fees on psychology students’ reasons for attending university

Kaye

Bates

2016

Journal of Further and Higher Education

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Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that• the authors, title and full bibliographic details of the item are cited clearly when any part of the work is referred to verbally or in the written form• a hyperlink/URL to the original Insight record of that item is included in any citations of the work • the content is not changed in any way• all files required for usage of the item are kept together with the main item file. You may not• sell any part of an item• refer to any part of an item without citation • amend any item or contextualise it in a way that will impugn the creator's reputation• remove or alter the copyright statement on an item.The full policy can be found here. Alternatively contact the University of Cumbria Repository Editor by emailing insight@cumbria.ac.uk. 1The impact of higher fees on psychology students' reasons for attending university The impact of higher fees on psychology students' reasons for attending universityThe introduction of the new UK tuition fees resulted in concerns about the impact on Higher Education (HE) uptake, and raised questions regarding students' motivations for attending university. The current study explored first year undergraduate psychology students' (N = 56) reasons for attending Higher Education through a series of focus groups. These were undertaken both before (n = 21) and after (n = 35) the fee rise, providing a pre-post comparison of potential changes. Results from the pre-fee rise sample showed general reasons for attending HE reflected wider, contextual factors, drawing on socio-cultural influences.However, the post-fee rise data suggested HE uptake to be largely more motivated by career opportunities associated with degree-level education. Similarly, reasons for choosing Psychology-based courses was related to vocational interest, suggesting strategic decisionmaking processes of students embarking on HE. The findings present new evidence of the role of financial investments in HE on general and course-specific motivations. Implications of the findings are discussed, with particular reference to the development of relevant employability initiatives within HE curricula.Keywords: Motivations; Higher Education; post-92; Psychology; Employability IntroductionThe changing landscape of Higher Education presents academics, students, parents and policy makers with a range of new challenges, most of which are yet untested. These issues are particularly pertinent in relation to the changes in tuition fees in England 1 . Indeed, initial concern was expressed about the extent to which students would be deterred from attending 1 Tuition fees in England ...

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Section: Pre and Post Fee Risesupporting

confidence: 80%

The impact of higher fees on psychology students’ reasons for attending university

Kaye

Bates

2016

Journal of Further and Higher Education

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“…Similar to studies done by Skorikov [10] that studied factors affecting career preparation behavior, career decision-making is a leading variable of behavior occupational exploration. Chuang and Dellmann-Jenkins [11] supported the relationship between career decision-making and occupational exploration with the result that student who have a high career decision-making also have high occupational exploration.…”

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A Grounded Analysis towards Developing a Career Decision Making Competency Model for Students Employability

Abdullah¹,

Hamid²,

Shonubi³

et al. 2016

JHS

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Abstract:Malaysian graduates are normally assumed to be lacking soft-skills and preparation for job-searching, thus affecting their decision-making skills. Thus, this study aims to develop a career decision-making competency model for effective career development among graduating students in Malaysia. The data collected from 1,655 graduating students were tested with confirmatory factor analysis to obtain three best-fit measurement models from the three variables. The findings according to the primary data reveal that there are significant relationships between self-knowledge and career decision-making, and occupational exploration as well as career decision-making. The result for testing invariance of a structural model for multi group analysis showed a validation model of self-knowledge, occupational exploration and career decision making. The findings from this study can be of great benefit to students, researchers, as well as the policy makers in the educational field.

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“…In a study on gender and workrelated attributes among seniors graduating from a hospitality program in the USA, Vest and Murrmann (1992) found that, compared to males, females placed a stronger emphasis on growth (career, job security, and training); control (job content, control over own work); and constraints (time and place, relocation, work schedule). A study by Chuang and Dellmann-Jenkins (2010) on undergraduate hospitality students' career intentions in the hospitality industry showed that gender and work experience were associated with career intentions in the industry, with females having stronger career intentions than males. The hotel and restaurant industry is a gendered labor market in Norway.…”

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Antecedents of Norwegian Adolescents’ Choice of Educational Pathway in Hospitality and Tourism

Dagsland

Mykletun

Einarsen

2017

NJWLS

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Career Decision Making and Intention: a Study of Hospitality Undergraduate Students

Cited by 134 publications

References 39 publications

The impact of higher fees on psychology students’ reasons for attending university

The impact of higher fees on psychology students’ reasons for attending university

A Grounded Analysis towards Developing a Career Decision Making Competency Model for Students Employability

Antecedents of Norwegian Adolescents’ Choice of Educational Pathway in Hospitality and Tourism

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