Re-Conceptualising Hospitality Management: Analysing and Predicting Career Progression and Success in Hospitality
Year: 2010
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Developing a cohort of competent managers and leaders is a perennial problem in the hospitality industry. This thesis seeks to address this problem by identifying the personal characteristics, attributes and features that impact upon on career progression and success. The impact of these phenomena will be explained by a constructivist model. The model will incorporate a range of phenomena such as: • behaviours (for example, career management and development practices), • skills and competencies (for example, emotional intelligence, cognitive intelligence), and • socioeconomic variables (for example, family background, size, and structure, current domestic arrangements, education, employment history, amongst others). Data were gathered by way of a series of online and pencil and paper surveys. In order to explicitly focus on the key themes of the research, 522 respondents were
Author: Paul Whitelaw
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2118842782