A Study of the Influence of Interns’ Professional Competency and Interns’ self-efficacy and Direct Supervisor Leadership on the Intention of Interns to Seek Future Employment : taking the Intern Students in the Tourism Departments of Technical and Vocational Colleges in Tainan and Kaohsiung, Taiwan as examples.

• Main Authors: WANG,I-HUI, 王怡惠
• Other Authors: HSIAO, CHIA-CHUN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cc8khp

博士 === 國立臺南大學 === 教育學系教育經營與管理碩博士班 === 107 === The present study investigates the influence of interns’ professional competency and interns' self-efficacy on the intention of interns to seek future employment in a tourism-relevant industry. The behavior of direct supervisors for their interns is considered as a mediating variable to understand the influence among the variables and the contextual moderating effect. Intern students in the tourism departments of technical and vocational colleges in Tainan and Kaohsiung, Taiwan were targeted as potential participants in the study. The subjects were from 55 off-campus internship units with a total of 409 interns. Besides, the hierarchical linear modeling is applied to analyze the influence of the hierarchical variables between internship units and interns. 　　The results of this research revealed that both interns’ professional competency and interns' self-efficacy of the intern students in the tourism departments of technical and vocational colleges positively affects their intentions for future employment. In addition, interns’ professional competency of the intern students in the tourism departments of technical and vocational colleges indirectly influences their intentions for future employment through the intermediary of and interns' self-efficacy. The behavior of direct supervisors for their interns affects their intentions for future employment. Last, the behavior of direct supervisors for their interns affects respectively and to different extents, and adjusts both interns’ professional competency of the intern students in the tourism departments of technical and vocational colleges and their intentions for future employment to different extents. 　　According to the results, interns’ professional competency plays an important role when it comes to their intentions for future employment and it can be explored before pre variables. Supervisor-intern interactions should be more emphasized, so the direct supervisors can lead the interns more suitably. Interns should know the professional competency of their own and enrich their self-efficacy. The author concludes the results and makes relevant recommendations. This study can also be taken as a reference for the tourism departments of technical and vocational college, internship units and their supervisors and other researches in the future.