Expectations of Hospitality Professionals Regarding Skills Development and Management

Exploring the Skills and Expectations of Hospitality Professionals

by Dr. Archana Chaudhary*,

- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540

Volume 18, Issue No. 5, Aug 2021, Pages 47 - 54 (8)

Published by: Ignited Minds Journals


ABSTRACT

A review on the expertise development and the executives of hospitality proficient was attempted to discover the skills and capacities of the workers and their interrelation with the expectations and occupation fulfillment levels of hospitality experts (representatives, managers and instructors) in explicit functional regions (front office, food and refreshment administration, housekeeping and food creation) in the hospitality business. Ten lodgings each from five star, four star and three star inn classifications were chosen for the review. Hundred and eighty administrators from the star inns having a place with the divisions of front office, food and drink administration, housekeeping, food creation, human asset and preparing office partook in the review. 80 workers took an interest in the review whose instructive capabilities were either degree in hospitality the board or certificate in hospitality the executives. Eighty instructors who took an interest in the review were from degree-granting and confirmation granting foundations. An expressive exploration configuration was embraced for the review. Polls utilizing rating scales were created, approved, and directed to instructors, managers, and representatives by the scientist. Center gathering conversation was utilized as a device for gathering subjective information as questions were handled to the members of instructors, workers and managers.

KEYWORD

hospitality professionals, skills development, management, expectations, occupation fulfillment, functional areas, front office, food and refreshment administration, housekeeping, food creation, lodgings, executives, workers, instructors, educational qualifications, research design, rating scales, qualitative data, center group discussion

INTRODUCTION

Hospitality is the connection among visitor and have, or the demonstration or practice of being neighborly. This incorporates the gathering and diversion of visitors, guests, or individuals in retreats, lodgings, participation clubs, shows, attractions, uncommon occasions, and different administrations for voyagers and sightseers. Hospitality is important for the help business. Administration industry is an industry that procures its income through giving theoretical items and administrations. Travel antiquarians have very much archived the advancement of this industry. The start of the money related framework and the development of transportation frameworks have prompted the foundation of the hospitality business in the early periods of civic establishments. In India, hospitality depends on the rule, "Athithi Devo Bhava", signifying "the visitor is God." This standard is displayed in various stories where a visitor is in a real sense a God who compensates the supplier of hospitality. From this stems the Indian methodology of generosity towards visitors at home, and in every friendly circumstance. Hospitality industry has a fundamental relationship with the economy. There are numerous significant sections in the hospitality business and it is assorted and huge in size. Arrangement of talented labor is imperative to offer the types of assistance in a solid, responsive and compassionate way to the visitors. Instruction, ability development and ability the board in hospitality is fundamental to accomplish these goals. Thus, training in hospitality the executives was begun first by the western nations which perceived the requirement for gifted representatives at work. In India, government created hospitality schooling as a professional stream in specialized instruction. Hospitality training is the scholastic investigation of this industry. A degree in hospitality the executives is frequently presented from either a college/school committed to the investigations of hospitality the board or a business college with an office in hospitality the board considers. Degrees in hospitality the executives may likewise be alluded to as lodging the board, inn and the travel industry the board, or inn organization. Degrees presented in this scholarly field incorporate Bachelors of Hospitality Administration, Bachelors of Business Administration, Bachelors of Science, Master of Science, Master of Business Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy. There are likewise momentary software engineers like Diploma and authentication programs presented by colleges and universities in hospitality the board. Hospitality the executives studies give an attention on the administration of hospitality activities including inns, eateries, journey Numerous hospitality software engineers require simultaneous field insight inside the business as temporary positions or co-usable situations. This assists the understudies with accomplishing the skills and preparing needed for work in the business. In the hospitality business, having a talented, excited, and serious labor force is viewed as indispensable to the accomplishment of the organizations in the business. The norm of administration gave is of prime worry as the associations among clients and customers is as up close and personal trade with the administrations being bought and burned-through simultaneously. Representative mentalities, execution, fulfillment in their work, obligation, and conduct are key determinants of administration quality which has an immediate linkage to consumer loyalty and dependability. This has prompted associations utilizing workers as a method for acquiring an upper hand over rivals. The schooling, preparing, skills, and inspiration of staff assume a critical part in an association acquiring an upper hand while their obligation to the organization will decide whether the organization can support this strategic advantage. A newcomer's responsibility will be dictated by his insights and mentalities towards working in the business just as the kind of occupations accessible in the business. To foster an inspirational perspective in understudies, the training software engineers led by the different foundations need to foster the abilities to give skills as information, correspondence, attitudinal and conduct changes. Sadly, industry experts and training suppliers are frequently in conflict with respect to the significant subjects and points to be educated and skills to be conferred. It is uncovered that the business has a frail comprehension of what establishes a hospitality degree and numerous teachers have a comparative feeble comprehension of the skills required in the business (Petrova and Mason, 2004; Ricci, 2005). Learning the necessities of the business would add worth and upgrade the educational plan of hospitality reads for understudies who might benefit and join the ability pool. The business would likewise benefit on the grounds that prepared and gifted labor would be accessible for enrollment.

Hospitality Industry and skills development

The hospitality business has become more complicated and far and wide and there exists the requirement for exceptionally prepared and instructed people to oversee, keep up with and grows the hospitality business. This has prompted the development of a great deal of instructive projects allowing degrees in hospitality and related fields of hospitality. There have been many discussions concerning whether hospitality training needs to offer just functional courses, summed up courses, or concentrated courses. As indicated by Pavesic (1993), had the option to advocate for themselves just through their graduated class who had a profession in the hospitality business. Numerous hospitality programs had fostered their current educational plan by studying different projects, counting courses offered, and offered the most visited courses in the educational plan. The burden to this framework was that different projects had additionally planned their educational program by a similar overview and count technique. Goodman and Sprague (1991) had communicated worry that the educational plan must be pulled together or probably it would lose its character and be invested in to general business educational programs. There have been various examinations that have set up that the hospitality understudies moving on from different hospitality establishments were battling with their obligations identified with occupations. Purcell and Quinn (1996) expressed that understudies have frequently been censured for having unreasonable expectations of the kinds of obligations that they were given and the sort of skills they were relied upon to have when they joined the labor force. Raybould and Wilkins (2005) added that many recently graduated hospitality understudies knew the hypothesis of the business or administrative errands yet didn't have the drive or information to execute these undertakings. They guaranteed that the hospitality business had marked the understudies as over qualified however under experienced. The representative's horrid exhibition at work could be identified with factors like hospitality schooling, down to earth preparing got in the organizations and industry, absence of inspiration of representatives, and impassive administration. Hospitality occupations commonly are really overbearing, tedious and require information and comprehension. Understudies may not comprehend the prerequisites and guidelines of the business. Having down to earth work insight and doing temporary positions assisted the understudies with understanding the idea of the work, the way of life of the association, and the expectations of bosses. Fontenot (2009) expressed that graduates who finished a temporary job before graduation expanded their degrees of general and explicit skills, worked with not so much tension, but rather more productively. Hospitality teachers were needed to give a broad outline of the sorts of professions accessible in the business and the functioning conditions on offer including pay levels, advancement openings, and conditions and vocation ways on offer (Barron and Maxwell, 1993). Giving potential understudies practical data about a profession in the business would assist with decreasing the quantity of graduates who foster a negative mentality towards a vocation in the business and ensuing work. The instructors should

preparing experience. The hospitality teachers and industry specialists need to team up to discover the harmony between what is instructed and what is accomplished.

Hospitality industry expectation

The hospitality industry is complex and dynamic and so its definition remains open to ongoing debate and research (Brotherton, 2004; William, 2004; Jones, 2004 in Hemmington, 2007). Slattery (2002) challenges the three main domain approaches of social, private and commercial environment. This is due to the fact that it excludes important aspects of the industry; instead, he views hospitality industry, co-oporate and venue-context (Lashely and Morrison, 2000), from philosophical and commercial perspectives to include several interesting perspectives such as humour and others. Hemmington (2007) points out the debate on unclear definition of the hospitality industry as a limiting factor in the industrial growth and development. The present study includes both commercial and non-commercial aspect of the hospitality industry. The author wished to find out in the midst of this definition debate whether the employers know the competences they expect from the employees. When expectation matches perception, Ladkin (2005) suggest that quality results. Critics like Said and Henkerson (2005) suggest that trainee exiting colleges should be ahead of the industry to keep abreast with times, and also help the industry cope with the emerging changes and introduce innovations. The current position is quite different the trainee learns a lot from the industry due to the presence of modern equipment and improved methods of service. The Kenya National Development Plan (2002 to 2008) states that Kenyan certificates are not accredited (Kenya, 1998). This is due to the fact that there has been no accreditation body to-date, although plans are underway to have one. These certificates do not indicate expected competences from the graduates. The employers may have to either guess on what they are competent in or retrain the new employees even in areas they had already trained in. Such lack of clarity would lead to loss in profitability due to poor quality service. Various researchers reveal that in different countries employers expect employees‘ to possess different skills. Burgess and Aitken (2004) in their survey of employers revealed functional, conflict resolution, computer skills and good work habits as the expected. They also revealed chronic shortages of chef‘s skills, kitchen, housekeeping, and management, sales, enterprising and customer service. The industry expectation varies as per country being researched. There seems to be skills and competency that are common to all researchers like customer service, technical skills and management that the industry expects an employee to possess in order to be skilled and self-initiative. The chronic shortage of skills revealed may suggest that the educators do not impart them during training. An implication that would mean that the employees‘ lack competences since they do not have the requisite skills. This will definitely hurt the industry as there will be no quality service, the government should move faster and address issues affecting hospitality training. Cotton (2002) identified people management, influence, communication, developing relationships, planning, analyzing information, decision-making, commercial awareness and resilience as competences which every employee should possess. In addition, Glmore and Gregor (2001) established characteristics such as honesty, code of ethics, appropriate appearance, fairness, respect and good working relationships as important. Punctuality, cautiousness, reliability and trustworthiness were considered as professional behaviours. Like Burgess and Aitken (2004), Cotton (2002) and Gilmore and Gregor (2001) also omitted the same skills and competency. This implies that the industry should give quality service that the employees need to have competency in the certain skills sets. These skills are the special ability gained by learning and practice. Managerial competences fall into two categories: the technical and generic. Technical managerial competence consists of having knowledge and skills that enable the manager to give an effective performance in specific areas of management. Generic managerial competence refers mainly to manager‘s capability of self-regulation and self-control in job development. There are several debates on skills and competences required in today‘s workplace. Brophy and Kiely (2002) suggested the need for an innovative and fresh approach to human resource management within the Irish hotel sector. Various authors have suggested that a competent employee must contribute to customer satisfaction amongst other things (Wikipedia assessed 27/9/11; Nwenre, 2005). Hence, a competent employee should have a cluster of skills and attitude that affect a major part of one‘s job (Nwenre, 2005). This is the only way we can get quality service in the hospitality industry (Agut et al., 2003) identified a negative gap in most technical managerial competencies (knowledge and skills) the highest knowledge need was in economic financial management and the highest in skill was computing. Kenya Hospitality Industry needs were noted by Woolf (1990), to include satisfying all clientele, possess management, communication and motivational skills, knowledge of the company objectives, expectation and behavior of different classes of guests, management of people, use of control information, problem analysis and decision-making. Other skills are functional skills such as international guests, also the knowledge of culture and value system of different nationalities. The varied findings call for a need for standardization and hence Fabricus (2002) advocates that Tourism education quality (TEDQUAL) should produce guidelines to industry standards. Hospitality Industry criticized tourism education for not adequately preparing people for employment in the industry (Airey, 1988). An understanding of how best to educate and develop human capital would benefit tourism industry as a whole (Landkin, 2005). The hospitality industry should develop its standards and expectations. Mayaka and King (2002) employer‘s opinion of the tour guide employees‘ skills is a useful assessment of training and education quality. Such a survey in hospitality industry may reveal the gap in education and training and hence be used to identify the competencies required in the industry for quality service. Currently, employees‘ competences depend on skills acquired during training. The quality of service depends on the competency in these skills. Sola et al. (2002) advocate an effort to foster skills which correspond to the contemporary industrial needs. The School of Tourism of Eastern Mediterranean, a TEDQUAL certified centre emphasizes a demonstration kitchen, training hotel and computer programme. Many training providers in Kenya lack the aforementioned and so graduates‘ competences in the contemporary industry raises eye brows. Despite the fact that every hotel has a kitchen, the Kenya hospitality industry and the academia are not well-linked so that each can benefit from each other. Some of the trainees are trained on theory only and get the practice during industrial attachment. Such students will not acquire the necessary skills to be competent enough to give high quality service. Eastaff (2002) suggests that skilled employees should have personal attributes. This includes people with passion and the right attitude, foresight, creativity, confidence, ability to motivate flexibility and respect for others. Business skills were suggested as follows; business focus, sales orientation, financial acumen, entrepreneurial skills, good customer relationship, good relationship with the hotel owners, a diplomat and a negotiator. Other skills necessary to facilitate success are that the hotel should be a learning organization not a training centre.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

1. To find out the existing skills among new recruits in the hospitality industry. 2. To ascertain the expectations of hospitality professionals regarding skills development and management. 3. To co-relate the existing skills with the expectations of hospitality employers. gathering, or attitude" by The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2003). Hospitality the board is the extensive term for the business the executives disciplines which incorporate the arrangement of hospitality-related administrations to voyagers, guests, and sometimes, neighborhood inhabitants (Walker, 1999). These administrations are regularly considered as food and refreshment, transportation, diversion, amusement, or housing. The terms dwelling the board, travel industry the executives, aircraft the board, journey line the board, the travel industry the board, amusement park the executives, food administration the executives, café the board et al. offer explicit instances of the sub-fragments pervasive inside hospitality. These sub-fragments work and exist under the bigger umbrella of the hospitality business. Generally in the writing, the travel industry is the umbrella to incorporate every one of the administrations gave in that. These days, hospitality the executives is utilized as the umbrella term to incorporate any administration capacities inside the movement, the travel industry, housing, and food administration businesses. Walker (1999) expressed that the idea of hospitality was old and conventional and has developed to the current day multi functional hospitality industry. Individuals had gone from the beginning of time utilizing various modes and the agreeable, advantageous, and quick travel of present occasions came in to being since the 1940s (Lattin, 1995). Expanded innovation, robotization, and quicker travel from highlight point had brought the expanded interest for movement alongside better standards for nature of administration by explorers. The increment in movement had worked on the possibilities for work in the hospitality business (Lattin, 1995). This development had prompted the requirement for profoundly instructed and well-trained representatives in the movement, the travel industry, and hospitality businesses. The housing business and the eatery business gave the largest number of occupations inside the general hospitality industry (Walker, 1999; 2004).

Growth of the Hospitality Industry

In the new thousand years, hospitality proceeded with its prevailing situation as the world's biggest industry. Internationally, the hospitality business has developed significantly since the 1960s because of the accessibility of rapid transportation, the expanding presence of economical innovation, and people's continuous craving for movement encounters (Angelo and Vladimir, 2001; Walker, 1999, 2004; Ricci, 2005). Innovation has supported quicker and agreeable travel and hospitality industry has prospered all through the world. The later long periods of 1960's saw understudies settling on hospitality as a profession. This was likewise impacted by the increment in the quantity of

hospitality areas was anticipated to increment to fulfill the need of visitors. The development of the hospitality business in numerous nations additionally made a lift for work in this area. The expansion in the travel industry and the quantity of guests demonstrated an increment popular for more qualified hospitality workers. This has prompted the development of more universities offering hospitality training and the board courses. Understudies moving on from these instructive organizations have joined the ability pool to make a profession for themselves in the hospitality business. In any case, there is one way of thinking that hospitality industry doesn't seem to esteem hospitality capabilities exceptionally. The business is set to esteem experienced representatives over those with a degree which is conversely, with the overall assumption that certifications offer alumni a benefit in their picked space of work (Jameson and Holden, 2000; O'Mahony and Sillitoe, 2001, Bryan, 2007).

Needs of Hospitality Industry

The requirement for expanded ability in the hospitality business has prompted hospitality the executives software engineer development in all sides of the world (Guide to College Programs, 2002; 2004). While trying to stay up with the expanded interest for new representatives entering the hospitality business, degree-level hospitality the board developers have encountered high development during the beyond couple of many years around the world. The hospitality business in India is developing with numerous business openings. As indicated by a paper report (Moulishree Shrivastava and Prashant K. Nanda, Mint, October 8, 2012), the $23 billion inn industry has plans to add something like 50,000 additional rooms in the best six urban communities of India by 2016-17. The need to foster the labor force to deal with this development opportunity is significant. A conversation with senior specialists from the hospitality business uncovered that labor force issues were quite difficult for the business. They said that finding and holding skilled individuals, preparing, profession arranging and administration were regions that necessary more consideration. It is fundamental to comprehend the connection between fulfilled representatives and the benefit of the firm. Representatives who are cheerful in their work environment are more spurred to contribute and give better buyer encounters and thusly, prompts a more grounded monetary presentation by the firm and generally financial development of the country. Firms need to start non-monetary execution measures to make a hierarchical culture that advances work fulfillment, strengthening, and preparing, and worker fulfillment (Bryan, 2007). To satisfy the need of prepared individuals to work in the hospitality business, comprehend the job of hospitality training

Hospitality skills

Hospitality degrees are professional by definition and they plan graduates for a specific job. This term is pertinent to the instructional classes that pre-arranged the alumni for occupations by giving them the fundamental functional skills. These preparation programs included housekeeping, food and refreshment administration, culinary skills, utilization of Property Management Systems (PMS), utilization of innovation and a prologue to deals and promoting and HR measure. Industry looks for representatives with industry-prepared skills and perspectives these courses as planning understudies for work zeroing in on fostering the fundamental work-prepared skills. Understanding the kind of skills needed by industry is critical to the two understudies and schooling suppliers. On the off chance that instructors know what the business requires, they can consistently change the educational plan to help industry expectations and needs in this way working on the possibilities and fulfillment of graduates. Colleges are more keen on the development of the understudies mentally and underline on basic reasoning skills. The understudies foster nonexclusive information and skills in the hospitality setting (Sigala and Baum, 2003; Finegold et al.2000; Jauhari, 2006). Relational abilities and delicate expertise development are viewed as fundamental for representatives and perceived as significant. The hospitality business is confronted with the persistent test of enrolling, persuading, and holding instructed workers. School programs offering degrees in hospitality the executives are frequently advanced and conveyed as being able to deliver graduates who might be more ready to enter the hospitality business than different alumni who pick non-hospitality degree programs. India has a great deal of instructive establishments giving hospitality schooling. The hospitality schooling educational plan presented in both government-run foundations and private organizations focussed on tasks preparing. Jauhari (2006) expressed that main portion of the 180 organizations/schools in India gave advantageous and helpful training to understudies. Manaktola (2007) explained on this examination and noticed that capabilities needed in the hospitality business at the administrative and the executives level in India varied from those gave in India's instructive organizations. By and large, the preparation gave was adequate to address the issues of section level situations in the business yet didn't plan understudies for administrative and administrative work. The nature of hospitality programs presented by unfamiliar run or controlled organizations likewise relied upon the capabilities of the unfamiliar college accomplice. The capacity to adjust hypothesis learnt in instruction and reality majority of the personnel are moves on from government or private schools offering hospitality courses and might not have insight of working in the hospitality business. There is a significant need to re-shape course educational programs and incorporate solid industry preparing parts with the goal that hospitality schooling upholds the business.

Skill Development

Lashley et al. (2002) proposed three sorts of skills sets needed by this assistance area. The principal type was the key expert positions requiring capable talented individuals like administrative positions in hospitality associations and senior administration positions. The second gathering of occupations was low-talented like section level positions. Albeit these positions are portrayed as low skills, bosses do require certain individual and actual qualities. The third gathering contains the modest number of occupations that require in fact talented representatives. In this gathering, there is contest among businesses to draw in a labor force currently furnished with the expert skills to do the work. For ability development, the significance of educational plan for hospitality instruction, the consideration of viable preparing, and temporary job experience has been distinguished. These are talked about beneath with their connected investigations in the field.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This paper presents the rationale behind the different advances took on by the analyst to concentrate on the issue; for this situation to concentrate on the current skills created among degree and confirmation understudies by teachers and learn the expectations of hospitality experts in regards to ability development and the board and co-relating the current skills with the expectations of the hospitality businesses and to survey their work fulfillment.

Framework for the Study (Study Protocol)

The applied structure for the review depended on whether the skills obtained by the workers through training were coordinating with the expectations of the businesses and to survey the work fulfillment of the hospitality proficient. The review proposed to respond to questions whether the current hospitality programs address the issues of the hospitality understudies, managers and workers. The review evaluates employability level of hospitality graduates by comprehension, regardless of whether the skills obtained by them in the instructive foundations fit the necessities of the businesses, and whether the work power has met the prerequisites of the hospitality business as far as occupation jobs, acknowledgment, authoritative culture, inspiration and preparing gave to them. Every one of the variables and parts distinguished for the review has assisted with for the work by the instructors.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

In this paper the information gathered were efficiently arranged and classified. Both quantitative and subjective investigations had been utilized to check realities for translation of results and ensuing conversation. Remembering the idea of study, it was felt important that notwithstanding factual discoveries, certain data got from center gathering conversation were taken in to thought while deciphering the eventual outcomes at whatever point and any place they ended up being key variables in understanding a circumstance. Last correlation of the information of instructors, businesses and workers for all parts has been considered. Information was looked at for any critical contrasts in the qualities and scores and correlation of the information among gatherings and between bunch was additionally done. Hence the translation of the outcomes through point by point conversation, mixed with incidental data offered help in understanding the exploration results. This review has dissected the all out impacts of the parts for the development and the executives of hospitality proficient and furthermore evaluated the work fulfillment.

Demographic profile of educators

The instructors test size was 80. The examples were taken from 10 foundations offering hospitality degree projects and 10 organizations offering hospitality certificate programs. The head of office or the senior personnel from the spaces of front office, housekeeping, food and drink administration and food creation was taken as test for the review. They were directed the created survey. The resources who took part had a place with government run organizations offering hospitality degree programs, private establishments which are subsidiary to Mumbai and SNDT college's and home science universities offering hospitality the board as a specialization. The real example size who responded to questions was 34 resources from Degree and 46 resources from certificate programs.

Table 1.1: Age of Educators from Degree Awarding and Diploma Awarding Institutions

The age range was between 26 years and 57 years for instructors having a place with degree granting

Fig.1. 1: Educators – By Degree (N=80) Fig.1.2: Educators – By Gender / Educational Qualification (N=80)

40 male teachers partook in the review, of these 15 had hospitality/lodging the board degrees and 25 had a certificate. Out of the 40 female teachers, 19 had a hospitality/inn the board degrees and 21 had a certificate. Of the 80 teachers who partook in the review, 21 instructors showed front office subjects, 20 teachers showed food and drink administration, 17 teachers showed housekeeping and 16 instructors showed food creation. 6 teachers showed different subjects like HR, promoting, prepping, and so forth these numbers are addressed as rates in the pie graph.

Fig 1.3: Educators – By Subject (N=80)

CONCLUSION

The hospitality business is a significant supporter of the economy. It has developed from inviting drained and hungry voyagers by giving safe house, food, and amusement to a more business industry. Because of its development, the requirement for exceptionally prepared and taught people to oversee, keep up with and grow the business is perceived. This requirement for making experts for the hospitality business has added to the development of instructive software engineers in hospitality the executives and related fields of hospitality. In the hospitality business, having a talented, excited, and serious labor force is viewed as imperative to the accomplishment of the organizations in the business. The norm of administration gave is of prime worry as the connections among clients and customers are in the types of eye to eye trade with the administrations being bought and burned-through simultaneously. Representative perspectives, execution, fulfillment in their work, obligation and conduct are key determinants of administration quality which has an immediate linkage to consumer loyalty and dependability. This has prompted associations utilizing workers as a method for acquiring an upper hand over rivals. The instruction, preparing, skills, and inspiration of staff assume a vital part in an association acquiring an upper hand while their obligation to the organization will decide whether the organization can support this strategic advantage. A newcomer's responsibility will be dictated by his insights and mentalities towards working in the business just as the sort of occupations accessible in the business. To foster an inspirational perspective in understudies, the training software engineers led by the different foundations ought to foster the capabilities to give skills as information, correspondence, attitudinal and conduct changes.

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Corresponding Author Dr. Archana Chaudhary*

Associate Professor, Home Science, Jwala Devi Vidya Mandir P.G. College, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh