The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Perception on Tourism Students’ Intention to Work in Sector

Yilmazdoğan, Orhan Can; Seçilmiş, Cihan; Çiçek, Dönüş

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(15)00321-4

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“…Some surveys show that students and graduates of tourism and hospitality programs have little or no intention of entering the industry upon graduation (King et al, 2003). While tourism sector is encouraging many people to join the sector with its wide job and career opportunuties, on the other hand it is a sector that majority of the people who studied or still studying tourism are not willing to work in (Yılmazdogan et al, 2015). If hospitality graduates are entering the industry without an accurate understanding of the industry, this could be the cause of many leaving the hospitality industry.…”

Section: Industry Perceptions Career Expectations and Employment Posmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Industry Perceptions and Expectations of Tourism Students: A Case Study in Turkey

Gül¹,

Altıntaş²,

Academician³

2018

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Tourism and Hospitality Management Schools' students must complete their internship before graduation in four or five stars hotels or travel agencies in Turkey. Some students may have negative perceptions of tourism education and working conditions in the industry, after they have worked as trainees in the industry. The aim of the study is to compare the perceptions and expectations of students in relation to tourism industry who have done their internship with those who have not and is to explore the differences in their future expectations and any changes in their career plans. For the purpose of the study a questionnaire was prepared, based on relevant literature, and the survey was conducted in the School of Tourism and Hotel Management at Anadolu University in Turkey. 204 students were selected by the use of stratified sampling as the study sample from the first, second, third and the fourth year. Half of the questionnaires were distributed to students who had done their internship and the rest to the students who had not undertaken internship yet. Results indicate that the respondents' perceptions and expectations of the industry were not significant according to their experience. Finally, the differences between respondents are summarized and implications are drawn for the educational institutions and further studies.

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Section: Industry Perceptions Career Expectations and Employment Posmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Industry Perceptions and Expectations of Tourism Students: A Case Study in Turkey

Gül¹,

Altıntaş²,

Academician³

2018

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“…A study developed by Yılmazdogan, Secilmis and Cicek [26] on a sample of 565 tourism students examined how the CSR activities of a hotel can influence the perceptions of tourism students when searching for a working place. Results revealed that the CSR activities of a hotel influenced the students' intentions to work for a certain employer in the tourism sector.…”

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Perceptions of Future Employees toward CSR Environmental Practices in Tourism

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Abstract:Corporate social responsibility (CSR) in tourism, with its central evironmental dimension, represents an important component for the sustainable growth of the tourism industry. The related CSR education could prove a major factor for future professional performance in this field of activity. Thus, this article is aimed at identifying the perceptions of current business students about CSR (students from study programs dedicated to business administration in tourism) and the importance they attribute to CSR environmental practices, mainly from their perspective as future employees in the tourism industry. We elaborated a research methodology based on the Ecolabelling principles, designed by the European Union in 2009. Our findings revealed that business tourism students assign more importance to several specific CSR environmental practices and that the importance of these CSR practices is statistically significant (we determined this significance by using the Friedman, Paired-Samples t-, ANOVA, Kruskal-Wallis and Bartlett sphericity statistical tests). The elaborated research methodology proved to be statistically highly reliable. Results also show the differences regarding the CSR practices preferred by various categories of students according to their study levels and gender. Our results pointed out that our third-year bachelor students showed a higher interest in CSR practices related to their professional training, while students from the master level degree attached more importance to CSR practices related to the environment. We also confirmed conclusions of previous studies that female respondents attach more importance to environmental issues than male respondents. Thus, we can state that a higher level of education is a key factor that supports CSR development in practice. Also, a significant conclusion of our research is related to the academic curricula for business faculties which must incorporate solid CSR and business ethics-dedicated courses and offer the needed support for the development of thematic projects about CSR Environmental practices in hotels.

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“…Nevertheless, a universal definition remains elusive. There is a large number and diversity of the approaches to determine the CSR concept [22][23][24]. According to Cole, this can be largely attributed to the fact that the concept has scope to mean different things to different people in different circumstances [25].…”

Section: Corporate Social Responsibility Vs Sustainable and Responsibmentioning

confidence: 99%

Millennials’ Awareness and Approach to Social Responsibility and Investment—Case Study of the Czech Republic

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We live in a new era with contradictory views on society, industries, and the whole world. Raising consumerism is compensated by raising the responsibility of the new generation, the so-called Millennials. The paper deals with the awareness of Millennials of corporate social responsibility (CSR), and their attitude to sustainable and responsible investment (SRI). The research is focused specifically on students of economically oriented higher education institutions (HEI), studying in the Czech Republic. For the purpose of general awareness of the term CSR, a sample of 1073 HEI students from different institutions was analyzed and evaluated. For the evaluation of their attitude to SRI, 213 respondents from Mendel University in Brno were interviewed. The research brought surprising results—bachelor’s degree students have a better awareness of the term than master’s degree students. This surprising fact can be explained by the fact that CSR courses have been incorporated into studies in recent years. Another important finding from the second research is that 57% of respondents are willing to sacrifice part of their return in the case of an investment in socially responsible instruments. This fact can be used for the design of an investment strategy offered by investment institutions.

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The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Perception on Tourism Students’ Intention to Work in Sector

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 publications

Analysis of Industry Perceptions and Expectations of Tourism Students: A Case Study in Turkey

Analysis of Industry Perceptions and Expectations of Tourism Students: A Case Study in Turkey

Perceptions of Future Employees toward CSR Environmental Practices in Tourism

Millennials’ Awareness and Approach to Social Responsibility and Investment—Case Study of the Czech Republic

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