Businesses have to acquire quality goods and services
production and also a strong image perception for perpetuating their lives
in increasing competition conditions and for persistent trailing in minds in
the future. Individuals prescribed ideas, intuitions, impressions, and
perceptions about the institution determine corporate image and affect people’s
thoughts that want to make a career in these businesses. Individuals want to
able to rise in their business and in their life, have access to better status
and have a bright career. When individuals realize their career wishes, they
try to determine; what is important for themselves and in which career can
match with their characteristics, abilities, and knowledge. This research was
conducted in order to determine the effects of university tourism education
students’ perceptions of the institutional image pertaining to the sector on
their willingness to make a career.
Many factors in
career trend and evolution (job satisfaction, organizational cynicism, mobbing,
social credibility of the profession, person’s family life, abilities and
skills etc.) can create positive/negative effects. The most important factor in
“creating a positive corporate image” is “human”. Businesses can give quality
service with qualified employees. Especially in the tourism sector; structure
stands in the forefront is “labor”. In businesses that give importance to
“human” factor, employees plan a career with the subject corporate image
perceptions. In this context, undergraduate degree students’ corporate image
perceptions for the sector effects in the subject making career claims
researched and accepted the main purpose. The basic hypothesis of the research
is presented below.
Hypothesis: The corporate
image in the tourism sector has a meaningful effect on making a career demand.
Declared this
hypothesis attracts attention to two different points. First one is the trend
to businesses’ increasing service quality and managing their corporate image in
a positive way to bring them “businesses that preferred by the employees”. The
other option is “businesses that preferred by the employees” can increase
“qualified employee gain”.
Image defines “a person’s or a community’s impression
in relation to himself and want to create someone else (Dowling, 1994: 8).
Corporate image can be defined as “general impression” positive or negative
emotions, ideas, attitudes, and experiences about the institution accumulated
stared in memories (Salam et al., 2013: 177). The organization members’ beliefs
according to “how other people seeing the institution” (Parent and Foreman,
2007: 15). Corporate image is a result of a persons’ all experience,
impression, faith, emotion and information’s interaction about the institution
(Lin et al., 2015: 3).
The basis of the word “career” is known in Latin
“carrus” (freight wagon), in French “carrier” (running track), in English
“career” (job business life). “Career” word leaps to Turkish from French word
“carrierre” word identified as a “specialization at a job” in Turkish Language
Institution”. Career concept defined in different shapes
by many researchers.
“Making a career demand” or in other words “career
trends” couched in as “individuals’ evaluate the most appropriate job in terms
of their needs and expectations according to their own knowledge, skill and
abilities” (Pehlivan, 2008: 51; Aktaş vd., 2013: 62; Kuzgun, 2000). In many
working areas, it can be mentioned from “making a career demand” and “selection
of the business” (Türkay and Tüzemen, 2009: 216).
Individuals want to work and earn income because of
economic and social components. In this demand effect of psychological needs
are important too. Correspond of economic, social and psychological needs are
very significant at “decide on a career”, “making a career demand” and “career
development”. The best career trend is individuals’ expectations, requirements
and necessities welcomed in the best way (Mazgal, 2013: 19; Baydur, 2014:
26-17; Sabuncu, 2015: 13; Pilavcı, 2007: 30; Yumuşak and Çoban, 2012: 77).
The scope of the research, in the Aegean region in
2015-2016 academic year is comprised of students in Tourism Faculty of Tourism.
A survey on the tourism faculty students on the issue was conducted. The
questionnaire used as a data collection tool was created three sections. The
first part of the survey is the question that aimed to determine the individual
characteristics of the participants. In the second and third sections, there
were scales of sectoral image and career making desire to determine the effects
of the participants on the sectoral image perceptions and desire to make a
career. As a result of the survey results, the frequency, percentage and
arithmetic mean of respondents’ responses were determined. In addition to this,
t-test was used in binary comparisons and variance (ANOVA) analysis in three or
more comparisons by determining whether the students’ perceptions of
institutional image pertaining to the sector and their desire to make a career
were significantly different according to the individual characteristics of the
participants.
“Making a
career demand” and “career planning” is very important many of the individuals.
This also provides significant benefits to the businesses. Especially being
preferred by the employees in terms of personnel acquisition and requirement of
qualified employee come forward in this subject. At this point “the impact of
corporate image” appears because of individuals’ making a career demands can be
formed from different efficient. We can summarize this study with two variants.
First one is “general impressions remain in people’s minds about the
organization negative or positive emotions, ideas, approaches and experiences.
The other one “career trend” means individuals’ evaluate professions and decide
the most appropriate for themselves.
In this study, we studied the image perceptions of the
university students that receive education in tourism at undergraduate level
effect of their making a career demand. According to the results, generally
participants have ideas below medium level about corporate images of tourism
enterprises. On the other hand when we look at the participants’ making a
career demand, we state that they were below medium level. At this point,
especially “sectoral experience” that participants have shown parallelism with
“making a career demand according to “corporate image”.
The hypothesis of the study is “the effect of
corporate image on making a career demand.
If we can determine the factors that students’
negative perceptions intended to sector, we can develop solution proposals
according to these factors and also strategies and planning
to create on effective corporate image perception. Especially if we can solve
the problems experienced during the internship process, we can provide
individuals that receive sectoral education stay in tourism sector.
We can take core that employees receive tourism sector
education must be employed. Thus we can protect employee rights and apply legal
regulations that provide occupational standardization. At the same time, this
application can feel students important for the businesses and has a positive
effect “making a career” demand in the sector. Consequently to this ratio of
trained staff in the sector will increase.
Students have to know that when they choice their job;
respect in society, good earnings and social status can’t be only the
decisions. When they choose their jobs, they have to have knowledge about their
job and have to research and review about the job to make acquaintance.
If we can tell the career days arranged in
universities to students, they can interview with company representatives. This
provides them to have knowledge about the profession and be easier for them to
choose a profession. One of the important factors affect the making a career
demand of the students is environment factor (family pressure, negative
attitudes to profession, cheap work force). We can get help from experts
discourage the negative thoughts. We must develop different measuring tools and
vocational guidance programs for students to able to make right vocational
trend.
Amaç: Günümüzde ekonomik, sosyal ve
teknolojik alanlarda meydana gelen gelişmeler sonucu işletmeler artan rekabet
koşulları altında faaliyetlerini sürdürmektedirler. İşletmelerin gelecekte
varlıklarını sürdürebilmeleri ve akıllarda kalıcı bir marka olabilmeleri için
kaliteli mal ve hizmet üretiminin yanı sıra güçlü bir imaj algısına da sahip olmaları
gerekmektedir. İşletmelerin kamuoyunda
nasıl tanındıklarına ve nasıl bilindiklerine ilişkin genel yargılar mevcuttur.
Öznel ve nesnel bilgilerden oluşan bu yargılar sonucu kurumsal imaj oluşur.
Genel anlamda kurumsal imaj, bireylerin kurum hakkında öngörülen düşünce,
sezgi, izlenimlerin ve algılarının tümüdür. Kurumsal imaj üzerinde oluşan
algılar, bireylerin yaşamlarında etkili olan kariyer yapma isteklerini de
etkilemektedir. Bireyler sürdürdükleri yaşamlarında ve işlerinde devamlı
ilerleme kaydederek yükselebilmeyi, daha iyi statüye erişebilmeyi ve parlak bir
kariyer sahibi olabilmeyi istemektedirler. Bu nedenle bireylerin sektöre
ilişkin imaj algıları ile kariyer yapma istekleri arasındaki muhtemel ilişkinin
belirlenmesi önemli gözükmektedir. Turizm sektörünün emek yoğun bir nitelik
taşıması, insan odaklı bir yapının ön plana çıkmasını sağlamaktadır. Bu nedenle
araştırma, üniversitede turizm eğitimi alan öğrencilerin sektöre yönelik imaj
algılarının, kariyer yapma isteklerine etkilerini ortaya çıkarmak amacıyla
yapılmıştır.
Yöntem: Araştırmanın evrenini, Ege
Bölgesi’nde Turizm Fakültelerinde Turizm eğitimi gören öğrenciler
oluşturmaktadır. Çalışmada nicel araştırma yöntemi tercih edilmiştir. Konuyla
ilgili olarak turizm fakülteleri öğrencileri üzerinde bir anket uygulaması
gerçekleştirilmiştir. Elde edilen veriler ile katılımcıların ifadelere vermiş
oldukları yanıtların frekans, yüzde ve aritmetik ortalamaları belirlenmiştir. Değişkenler
arası farklılıkları belirlemek üzere kurumsal imaj ile kariyer eğilimlerinin
demografik özelliklere göre değişip değişmediği (iki grup için) t testi ve (üç
veya daha fazla grup için) varyans analizi (One Way ANOVA) ile test edilmiştir.
Bulgular: Sektöre yönelik kurumsal imaj ile
kariyer yapma isteği arasında anlamlı bir etki tespit edilmiştir. Öğrencilerin
kurumsal imaj algıları kariyer yapma isteklerini pozitif etkilemektedir.
Sonuç: Elde edilen sonuçlara göre
öğrencilerin sektöre yönelik kurumsal imaj algılarının kariyer yapma istekleri
arasındaki ilişki/etki korelasyon ve regresyon analizi ile tespit edilmiş olup,
katılımcıların sektöre yönelik imaj algılarının kariyer yapma istekleri
arasında anlamlı bir ilişki olduğu görülmektedir. Bununla birlikte değişkenlere
ait aritmetik ortalamaların düşük olmasına bağlı olarak regresyon analizinde
kurumsal imaj algılarının kariyer yapma isteklerine ilişkin toplam varyansın
küçük bir kısmını açıkladığı da görülmektedir.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Original Articles |
Authors | |
Publication Date | December 26, 2018 |
Submission Date | May 29, 2018 |
Acceptance Date | December 22, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 6 Issue: 3 |
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