Management competencies: an Australian assessment of tourism and hospitality students

Helen Breen, Southern Cross University
Maree Walo, Southern Cross University
Kay Dimmock, Southern Cross University

Abstract

Management education has the responsibility to provide industry with graduates equipped with relevant management competencies (Christou 2002). This paper agrees with this view and reports on the first and second stages of a longitudinal study that explores tourism and hospitality students' perceptions of their competency development in the first and final year of the Bachelor of Business in Tourism program. A self-assessment instrument that measures perceived competence in management competencies and roles within the Competing Values Framework (CVF) (Quinn, Thompson, Faerman & ...