Determinants of Industrial Training Effectiveness in the Hotel Management Course Curriculum: Stakeholder’s Opinions

Abstract

Hotel management education could be considered as a process that gives the students a set of principles, not detailed application, which could be supplemented by way of sending students for industrial training component in the curriculum for developing the capabilities and gaining core transferable skills. The Industrial Training program provides opportunities for exposure to the working world, which will make graduates more aware of the hopes and expectations that industry  has of them. Prevailing Practices of Industrial Training Component in the curriculum of three year degree course of Hotel Management among various Universities varies in terms of duration and semester wise. Present research is an attempt to explore the responses of stakeholders on key determinants of industrial training effectiveness. The research instrument used in the study was questionnaire focused on key determinants of industrial training component demographic background of the respondents. The sample population of the study includes four groups .First and second one are hotel management students enrolled in three year degree course of Hotel Management institutions .Students were further divided into Pre training students and Post training students . Third are the hotel industry professionals working in 3 or above three stars approved Hotel. Fourth were hotel management faculty members. The findings indicate that overall, trainees perceived themselves to be adequately prepared for the Industrial Training programme .However there is a need to address potential mismatch between the trainees’ area of specialization and the tasks assigned to them during their training period. It was found that those who completed their training from 3 star hotels were admit that were treated like full time staff and trainees were the most educated persons in the organisation of attachment. It was found that very knowledgeable trainees will achieve excellent performance and not very knowledgeable trainees will achieve poor  performance rating during their industrial training duration.