Foreign training in Jordan’s international hotel chains: a quantitative investigation
This paper draws on the perceptions of middle managers in Jordan to identify what determines upper management’s decision in International Hotel Chains (IHC) to invest in out-of-country training (OCT). A model employing the presence of relationships between ‘attitudes’, ‘benefits and usefulness’,...
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| author | Samer Al-Sabi Mousa Masadeh Bashar Maaiah Mukhles Al-Ababneh |
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| description | This paper draws on the perceptions of middle managers in
Jordan to identify what determines upper management’s decision
in International Hotel Chains (IHC) to invest in out-of-country
training (OCT). A model employing the presence of relationships
between ‘attitudes’, ‘benefits and usefulness’, ‘barriers’ and
‘IHC’s decision’ to invest in OCT, was proposed and examined. A
total of 261 middle managers from IHCs in Jordan provided
responses to a structured survey. Confirmatory factor analysis
validated the dimensions for each construct. Structural equation
modelling (SEM) was used to test the relationships among the
four constructs of the study. The results showed a direct
relationship between attitudes and benefits/usefulness to IHC’s
decision to invest in OCT, and demonstrated the mediating role
of attitudes in the inverse r |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5b268a5d73fd4482bd72d2143fe734562025-02-02T09:00:25ZengUniversity of Algarve, ESGHT/CINTURSTourism & Management Studies2182-84662017-04-01132415110.18089/tms.2017.13204Foreign training in Jordan’s international hotel chains: a quantitative investigationSamer Al-Sabi0Mousa Masadeh1Bashar Maaiah2Mukhles Al-Ababneh3Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, College of Archaeology, Tourism & Hotel Management, Petra, JordanAl-Hussein Bin Talal University, College of Archaeology, Tourism & Hotel Management, Petra, JordanYarmouk University, The Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Irbid, JordanAl-Hussein Bin Talal University, College of Archaeology, Tourism & Hotel Management, Petra, JordanThis paper draws on the perceptions of middle managers in Jordan to identify what determines upper management’s decision in International Hotel Chains (IHC) to invest in out-of-country training (OCT). A model employing the presence of relationships between ‘attitudes’, ‘benefits and usefulness’, ‘barriers’ and ‘IHC’s decision’ to invest in OCT, was proposed and examined. A total of 261 middle managers from IHCs in Jordan provided responses to a structured survey. Confirmatory factor analysis validated the dimensions for each construct. Structural equation modelling (SEM) was used to test the relationships among the four constructs of the study. The results showed a direct relationship between attitudes and benefits/usefulness to IHC’s decision to invest in OCT, and demonstrated the mediating role of attitudes in the inverse rhttps://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/944/pdf_52international hotel chainsout-of-country trainingmiddle managershotel management practicesjordan |
| spellingShingle | Samer Al-Sabi Mousa Masadeh Bashar Maaiah Mukhles Al-Ababneh Foreign training in Jordan’s international hotel chains: a quantitative investigation Tourism & Management Studies international hotel chains out-of-country training middle managers hotel management practices jordan |
| title | Foreign training in Jordan’s international hotel chains: a quantitative investigation |
| title_full | Foreign training in Jordan’s international hotel chains: a quantitative investigation |
| title_fullStr | Foreign training in Jordan’s international hotel chains: a quantitative investigation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Foreign training in Jordan’s international hotel chains: a quantitative investigation |
| title_short | Foreign training in Jordan’s international hotel chains: a quantitative investigation |
| title_sort | foreign training in jordan s international hotel chains a quantitative investigation |
| topic | international hotel chains out-of-country training middle managers hotel management practices jordan |
| url | https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/944/pdf_52 |
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