The Moderating Influence of Internship Program on the Relationship between Undergraduates’ Perception and their Intention to Join Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A Theoretical Model

Abdul Alem Mohammed and Basri Rashid
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Abdul Alem Mohammed: School of Tourism, Hospitality and Environmental Management, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia
Basri Rashid: School of Tourism, Hospitality and Environmental Management, Univerisiti Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Malaysia

International Review of Management and Marketing, 2016, vol. 6, issue 2, 317-321

Abstract: A successful firm in the tourism and hospitality industry requires skilled and committed employees. However, in the current tourism and hospitality industry, the top challenge lies in the attraction and retention of qualified and skilled employees and a great proportion of the graduates fail to enter the industry. It is therefore important to provide a value conceptual model that expounds on the theoretical relationships existing between the perceptions of undergraduate students and their intention to join the industry. This study contributes to literature by clarifying the perceptions of students-intention to join the industry relationship and by determining the moderating influence of the internship program on such relationship

Keywords: Intention to Join Industry; Students’ Perception; Internship Program; Tourism and Hospitality Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L83 M39 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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