The relationship between chef expertise and career anchor

• Main Authors: Ruei-Chen Chiang, 江叡晨
• Other Authors: Yuan-An Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16045333732138400133

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 觀光事業研究所 === 95 === The literature indicated that expertise in the professional activities, such as chef, involved the individual, other people and the cultural context, and gradually resulted in core characteristics. The core characteristics would renew the individual’s self- perception and role-recognition through life goals, responsibilities, and affections of the career. Therefore, the performance of expertise would have some impact on the self-concept in career anchor. The purpose of the present study was mainly to investigate the association between the professional expertise and career anchors among chefs. The in-depth interview and survey method were applied and 72% usable data were collected among chefs with at least five-year full-time experiences in the hospitality industry. Different from Schien’s theory, the present study found five significant factors among chef’s career anchors and were named Full-play of Specialty, Challenge and Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Job Autonomyand, Managerial Promotion. The respondent’s perception toward professional expertise had a significant impact on the career anchors in terms of different positional levels. More results and implications were discussed in details.