{"title":"Cultivating adaptability and competency through enhancing hotel employability skills and language communication abilities","authors":"Yen-Ling Ng , Chih-Hsing Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.jhtm.2025.02.008","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As internationalization and competition intensify, the hotel industry is being confronted with changing customer demands and dynamics. This study, which involved 566 hotel employees, explored the process of developing career adaptability. The findings indicate that employability skills may indirectly influence career adaptability through career competency, while language communication abilities can enhance this development process. Additionally, the study demonstrates the interrelationship among the critical attributes of employability skills, revealing that work attitude can impact career planning through both general and professional competencies. The first and second factors of alternative models were employed to validate the proposed research model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51445,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","volume":"63 ","pages":"Pages 15-29"},"PeriodicalIF":7.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1447677025000282","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
As internationalization and competition intensify, the hotel industry is being confronted with changing customer demands and dynamics. This study, which involved 566 hotel employees, explored the process of developing career adaptability. The findings indicate that employability skills may indirectly influence career adaptability through career competency, while language communication abilities can enhance this development process. Additionally, the study demonstrates the interrelationship among the critical attributes of employability skills, revealing that work attitude can impact career planning through both general and professional competencies. The first and second factors of alternative models were employed to validate the proposed research model.
期刊介绍:
Journal Name: Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Affiliation: Official journal of CAUTHE (Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education Inc.)
Scope:
Broad range of topics including:
Tourism and travel management
Leisure and recreation studies
Emerging field of event management
Content:
Contains both theoretical and applied research papers
Encourages submission of results of collaborative research between academia and industry.