Student’s Satisfaction towards their Industrial Training: A Review Paper

Abstract

Indian hotel industry has seen a remarkable growth in recent years due to heavy inflow of tourists in India. Apparently, hotel industry is one highest foreign exchange earning industries in Indian economy. Being a service-oriented industry, it relies heavily on passion driven individuals who are willing to work in extremely challenging environment. With drastic expansion of hotel industry in these years, a huge demand of quality manpower has aroused. Seeing hotel industry as an exciting career option, there has been great number of aspirants paving their way to academic institutes offering hotel management courses. Such institutes are playing an important role in supplying the quality workforce against demand of passionate individuals in hospitality industry. However, it has become extremely challenging for these institutes to keep their students up to rising standards of hotel industry. While classroom exposure is simply not enough to develop required competent and trained professionals, there is compulsory concept of industrial training that is followed in the courses of hotel management colleges/institutes. Industrial Training is an important segment of these courses in which a student pursuing a hotel management is sent under an industrial training to a hotel for getting exposure of real world in industry outside the classroom. It is a short-term training of 22 to 26 weeks as per the policy of different institutions. In period of industrial training the trainee works in all core departments pf hotels and get insights to all real time situations in a working hotel. Trainee experience not only prepares the trainee for industry but also imparts knowledge that cannot be achieved by just studying books. Generally, these training sessions are carried out throughout the year by hotels in summers and winters batches. These trainees help hotels to fill in as extra manpower. In this study 50 papers based on relevant studies has been reviewed to find out the student’s satisfaction towards industrial training through various magnitudes, aspects, underlying factors, variables, perceptions and paradigms. This study will provide a analyses on the basis of review of literature which will act as a WIN-WIN situation for industry, academia and students and all other stakeholder’s so that purpose of placing industrial training in curriculum is met.