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Career Success of Hospitality Female Middle Managers in Mainland China

Yang, Shiyi
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1481558462345824

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2016, MS, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration.
Women managers always occupied an important position in the hospitality industry. However, the career path to working women is never smooth. In china, hotel women managers have their own specific barriers on their career path. To date, little research has specifically focus on China hotel women managers working situation. This research examined the factors that influent women managers’ career success of mainland China hotel. The goals of this study are: (1) understanding the importance of women’s career success; (2) understand how to achieve success as a hospitality female; (3) provide behavior tactics to females within the hospitality industry; and (4) increase female employees’ confidence and problem-solving abilities. The interplay of career variables including: self-awareness, career ambition, ICM-career goal, ICM-career management, OCM, gender stereotype, public opinion and career motivation were investigated. Regression and ANOVA were selected to investigate career variables’ influence on participants’ career success and examine the difference among career variables with these women managers’ age, education, working positions, working years, education, feminism or not and hotel type (international hotel and domestic hotel). Results showed that the variables of ICM had the most significant relationship with career success. Career ambition and OCM are irreplaceable on hotel women managers’ career success. Advices and suggestions are presented for hotel female practitioners and students to help them with their career path planning. Implications and limitations could be took advantage of a basis for the future studies.
Ning-Kuang Chuang (Committee Chair)
Barbara Scheule, (Committee Member)
Suzanne Holt (Committee Member)
199 p.
Asian Studies; Business Administration; Labor Relations
Hospitality, Women managers, Career success, career motivation, Individual Career Management

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  • Yang, S. (2016). Career Success of Hospitality Female Middle Managers in Mainland China [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1481558462345824

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yang, Shiyi. Career Success of Hospitality Female Middle Managers in Mainland China . 2016. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1481558462345824.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yang, Shiyi. "Career Success of Hospitality Female Middle Managers in Mainland China ." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1481558462345824

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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