“I Study Accounting Because I Have To”: An Exploratory Study of Hospitality Students’ Attitudes Toward Accounting Education

2020

Leisure Sciences

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This study extended the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to embrace the pro-environmental construct in predicting visitor off-trail behavioral intentions at national parks. Quantitative questionnaire items were developed through an elicitation study and empirically tested among 325 respondents. Empirical results revealed overall predictive variance of 21.7 percent (R 2) in predicting visitor off-trail intentions. Behavioral beliefs predicted most of behavioral intentions followed by normative beliefs. The contribution of control beliefs and proenvironmental values had the weakest predictive power. Among the behavioral beliefs, visitors had the strongest belief that walking off the trails would lead to a shorter route. Friends as a reference group were the strongest normative belief that influenced off-trail intentions. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Walking Off-Trail in National Parks: Monkey See Monkey Do

2020

Leisure Sciences

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“…Furthermore, Knani (2014) highlighted the overuse of quantitative methods in hospitality ethical studies and emphasises that ‘We still need qualitative research that helps define what ethical behaviour is …’ (Knani, 2014: 6, line, 47). Therefore, the study uses an established TPB to assist in the systematic elicitation technique (Goh, 2009, 2010; Goh and Scerri, 2016) to gather information regarding the research problem of students’ attitudes, key reference groups and perceived constraints towards employee theft in hospitality. This study used a single cross-sectional design to understand students’ perceptions at one point in time, rather than a longitudinal design that measures these perceptions over time (Malhotra et al., 1996).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Theft in the hotel workplace: Exploring frontline employees’ perceptions towards hotel employee theft

Tourism and Hospitality Research

Kong

2016

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A plethora of studies has investigated theft in the workplace in various industries. However, few studies investigated the motivations behind hotel employee theft especially among Generation Z undergraduates working full time as part of their internship. This targeted sample group is pivotal to the hotel industry as they are the future generation of hotel leaders. These reasons can be attitudinal such as excitement, influenced by fellow colleagues and perceived ease of committing the theft. To address this research gap, this study utilised the established theory of planned behaviour to investigate underlying motivations of employee theft behaviour in the hotel industry. Personal interviews were conducted with 29 hotel management undergraduates who were doing their internships as full-time hotel employees in various frontline jobs in food and beverage, housekeeping and front office. Results revealed the adrenaline feeling when committing hotel employee theft as the key motivator. The most influential social group was colleagues in the same department. The main perceived difficulty was the grey area of defiant behaviour and what actually constitutes as employee theft.

“…Some participants commented, 'the assessments will help guide internship success' (PR5/14) and would 'help you link whatever you learnt in the classroom to the job' (PR7/15). The connection of assessments to practice is a common expectation of hospitality students given the practical-based curriculum (Goh and Scerri 2016). Assessments were perceived as providing the opportunity to 'keep track of your experiences so at the end you can go back and see what you started with and how you ended up' (PR5/14), providing an affirmation that 'you've actually learnt something' (PR9/15) and 'how you have grown through the internship' (PR3/14).…”

Section: Theme 1: Authenticity Of Assessment Tasksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating authentic assessment tasks in work integrated learning hospitality internships

Nyanjom

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

Yang

2020

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Internship as part of work-integrated learning (WIL) is a critical curriculum component in higher education to better prepare for the future workforce. To assess WIL, educators typically select authentic assessments such as reflective journals and managerial reports to solve existing workplace problems. Despite the academic discourse supporting the use of internships, a paucity of studies has investigated the role of formal assessments embedded into internship subjects. In this paper, we evaluate the perceptions of hospitality and tourism undergraduates towards the effectiveness of assessments as part of their WIL internship programme. Focus group sessions were conducted with internship university students (n = 29) in Australia over a cross-sectional longitudinal period of 3 years. Our thematic analysis revealed three key themes: authenticity of assessment design, challenges with work-study-life balance, and the level of industry involvement in assessment. This study contributes to the body of knowledge in relation to how compulsory assessment tasks can be effectively integrated into WIL internships to positively influence the experiential learning outcomes of students.