호텔조리사의 경력지향성에 관한 연구 : 경력 목표, 인구통계학적 변수와 관계를 중심으로

Although research has been conducted with various occupations, few studies have been conducted with hotel chefs. Hotel chefs are involved in a profession which requires a special competency of knowledge, skills and abilities as well as a spirit of professionalism. It is important to retain the high performing hotel chefs and to develop their careers in order to have a sustainable competitive advantage in the hotel industry. Accordingly, as the first empirical research on career orientations with hotel chefs, this study aims to explore what career orientations are perceived as important over the course of chefs’ careers. It also examines the difference of career orientations by the career goals that hotel chefs consider as their ultimate vocations and by demographic variables including gender, age, and educational level. The results of this study are as followings. First, the salient career orientations of hotel chefs are derived into five dimensions including professional, managerial, autonomy, secure, and entrepreneurial orientation. Second, among the five career orientation dimensions, hotel chefs have high value in professional and autonomy orientation. Third, 45% of hotel chefs want to be an owner of a start-up restaurant as their final career goals. Forth, the chefs who want to be a hotel’s chef de cuisine have high value in professional orientation, while the chefs who want to be an owner of a start-up restaurant have high value in entrepreneurial orientation, but low value in managerial orientation. Fifth, the results with demographic variables show that male chefs have higher value in entrepreneurial orientation than female chefs, hotel chefs over fifty years old have high value in secure and entrepreneurial orientation, and professional, managerial, and autonomy orientation are positively related to education level. Based on these results, academic and practical implications are suggested and the limitations and future research directions are discussed.