Hospitality Programs in Korean GraduateSchools: Why Students Select Certain Programs and Competencies in the Curriculum

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2004

Department

Agriculture & Tourism

Abstract

This study compared student, academy, and industry views of graduate school-level curriculum issues in hospitality programs. Research findings revealed that with regard to reasons for student's entry into graduate programs, the academy placed higher importance on raising the academic background through the obtaining of a master's degree than did students and industry groups while students put higher emphasis on networking with industry people than the other two groups. However, students expressed less interest in the “benefit of promotion in the workplace” variable than did the other two groups. With respect to competencies needed by graduate students, industry placed higher importance on leadership, company loyalty, and service-mindedness than did the other two groups. This study concludes with a discussion of the implications of these findings for graduate curriculum development.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1300/J171v03n01_04

First Page

33

Last Page

45

Publication Title

m. Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality and Tourism

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