Personality Type as a Factor in Career Decisions in Hospitality Management

Abstract

Personality development and change has become increasingly important in understanding how many natural processes occur. Researchers have studied identifiable patterns of preferences that have been proven as underlying factors in career decisions.

The purpose of this study was to provide insight into how personality types and preferences are utilized in the process of making a career decision in the hospitality industry. This study investigated whether there was a dominant personality type that influenced the participants' career decision. This study analyzed 162 responses to The Keirsey Temperament Sorter which allowed for each participant to be assigned a personality type according to Jung-Myers typology. Findings showed that the majority of hospitality management students sampled at the University of Central Florida's Rosen College of Hospitality Management were typed as ESFJ. However, no correlation was made between personality type and a specific hospitality industry career segment. Recommendations were made for further study and for continued research into the relationship between personality type and various aspects of the hospitality industry.

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Thesis Completion

2005

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Ross, Mary Jo

Degree

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

College

Rosen College of Hospitality Management

Degree Program

Hospitality Management

Subjects

Dissertations, Academic -- Hospitality management; Hospitality management -- Dissertations, Academic; Hospitality industry -- Study and teaching (Higher); Myers Briggs Type Indicator; Personality

Location

Rosen College of Hospitality Management

Format

Print

Identifier

DP0021978

Language

English

Access Status

Open Access

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Document Type

Honors in the Major Thesis

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