Today's intern, tomorrow's practitioner?—The influence of internship programmes on students' career development in the Hospitality Industry

Chen, Tzu-Ling; Shen, Ching-Cheng

doi:10.1016/j.jhlste.2012.02.008

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“…The last aspect addressed by this study involves visibility and career advancement within the company, two fundamental aspects for the group, given that interns essentially seek learning and realization (CHEN and SHEN, 2012). This study shows that the interns are very concerned about their visibility within the organization; work is perceived by their direct superiors and some colleagues, but not by the organization as a whole.…”

Section: Visibility and Career Advancementmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Dahlstrom (2013) emphasizes this troubled relationship between the teleworker and time: when working remotely, interns are strongly seduced by or influenced by the idea of "demonstrating service" and end up exceeding their allotted work hours to be closer to management and one step closer to the realization of getting a position with the organization: Their functions, which took more than 30 hours a week to complete, were performed in their residences and the absence of organizational monitoring or the intern's own personal records in this context, compromised the fulfillment of the applicable laws for internships (CHEN and SHEN, 2012). However, it may be seen that the long working hours can be established as a implicit rule among these participants, that is, as a code of conduct even when the bosses respected the internship hours and there were no mandatory tasks solicited outside normal working hours, and in terms of whether they were really mandatory, the respondent that mentioned working 50 hours a week makes it clear that this was a personal desire: The discourse of Interviewee 10 carries with it a preconceived notion of self-discipline, self-management and self-motivation in the process of turning teleworkers into "entrepreneurs themselves" (COSTA, 2013).…”

Section: [] There Was a Time To Begin But Not A Time To End (Intmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Aspectos críticos do teletrabalho em uma companhia multinacional

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Amidst the changes in the business world, companies are constantly forced to adapt by reviewing their policies, their processes and their practices and work routines. Among various working practices, teleworking is a controversial theme in management and worthy of more in-depth studies. Based on this premise, the following research question is proposed: What are the critical elements for telework programs' sustainability in a multinational company? This article aims to describe and characterize teleworkers' views regarding telework as a human resources practice, its advantages and disadvantages, as well as the challenge of making it a strategically oriented practice. A study was carried out in a telework program for interns of a multinational company. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with twelve trainees and examined through a content analysis with the aid of the software NVivo 9. The analysis provided seven categories regarding the percep¬tions of the program participants. Among advantages identified are the positive relationships between telework and academic activities, the flexibility provided, as well as professional development as a result of autonomous setting of individual working goals. On the other hand, the working hours, the difficulty of untying personal life from work and problems with visibility within the organization -which is important in terms of career advancement -were singled out as major difficulties of this work mode. Aspectos críticos do teletrabalho em uma companhia multinacional ResumoEm meio às transformações no mundo dos negócios, as empresas são constantemente forçadas a se adaptar, revisando suas políticas, seus processos e suas práticas e rotinas de trabalho. Dentre as diversas práticas de trabalho, o teletrabalho é um tema polêmico em administração e merecedor de estudos mais aprofundados. Baseando-se nessa premissa, propõe-se a seguinte pergunta de pesquisa: Quais são os elementos críticos para a sustentabilidade de um programa de teletrabalho no contexto de uma empresa multinacional?. Este artigo busca descrever e caracterizar as visões de teletrabalhadores em relação ao teletrabalho enquanto prática de recursos humanos (RH), suas vantagens e desvantagens, assim como o desafio de torná-lo uma prática estrategicamente orientada. Realizou-se estudo em um programa de teletrabalho para estagiários de uma empresa multinacional. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas em profundidade com 12 estagiários e examinados por meio de análise de conteúdo no programa de computador NVivo 9. A análise forneceu 7 categorias acerca das percepções dos participantes do programa de teletrabalho. Dentre as vantagens identificadas estão a relação positiva entre teletrabalho e atividades acadêmicas, a flexibilidade proporcionada, assim como o amadurecimento profissional como resultado do estabelecimento autônomo de metas individuais de trabalho; por outro lado, a sobrecarga de horas de trabalho, a dificuldade de desvincular a vida pessoal do trabalho e os problemas com ...

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Section: Visibility and Career Advancementmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: [] There Was a Time To Begin But Not A Time To End (Intmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aspectos críticos do teletrabalho em uma companhia multinacional

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“…Whilst many studies of students' satisfaction with internship programme and their career choices have been published (Bao & Fang, 2014;Blomme et al, 2009;Fong et al, 2014;Kim & Park, 2013), evaluation of the motivational factors which encourage students to make career decisions, combined with internship programme in the hospitality industry are limited (Chen & Shen, 2012). Therefore this research will enrich the literature by providing evidence for motivational factors influencing HTM programme students' decisions on their future career.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…However, many HTM programme students will not feel a sense of achievement as one kind of intrinsic content factors from repetitive tasks, and are bored with this daily work (Bloom et al, 2009;Lam & Ching, 2007). The previous studies found that many HTM programme students lack an intrinsic willingness to enter this industry is one of the biggest challenges facing both the industry and educational institutions (Blomme et al, 2009;Chen & Shen, 2012;Donina, 2015;Pizam et al, 2013;Zopiatis & Constanti, 2012;). The major issues focus on the nature and characteristics of work in the hospitality industry: its labour intensiveness, long working hours, unsocial life, less-skilled jobs, less challenge, and uninteresting and repetitive work.…”

Section: Intrinsic Motivational Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Model of Predicting the Effects of Motivational Factors on the Students’ Career Decisions to join Hospitality Industry in China

Hui¹,

Rashid²,

Mohammed³

2017

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The increase world tourism is generating numerous employment opportunities in the hospitality industry in China. However, the top challenge lies in the attraction and retention of skilled and qualified employees to join this industry and the mainland China has encountered with a serious mismatch between supply and demand for personnel. Due to the problem of a great proportion of Chinese Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) programme students are not making their career decisions to work for this industry after graduation. Therefore it is important and purposive for this paper to provide a value conceptual model that predicting the effects of three motivational factors: intrinsic, extrinsic and parental factors on HTM students' career decisions to enter the hospitality industry. Moreover, this study also examined the internship programme as moderating effects on such relationship which is filling the literature gap of hospitality management research.

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“…According to Patterson (1993), the impact of perception on satisfaction is salient when the factor being evaluated is important. Thus, it should be more pragmatic for educators and internship employers to focus their improvement effort on the factors which students consider important (Chen & Shen, 2012). Consistent with this argument, social psychological theories suggest that factors which are considered unimportant have little impact on subsequent evaluation (Krosnick, 1988).…”

Section: In the Unitedmentioning

confidence: 99%