Thursday, August 15, 2019

On the Job Training Essay

The students now days, enrolling related to Hospitality Industry. Because it is the in-demand course in all Universities and it has higher job opportunities. One of the fastest growing sectors of the economy of our time is the hospitality industry. The hospitality industry alone is a multi-billion dollar and growing enterprise. The hospitality industry includes cooperative relationships with multiple organizations. For example, hotels are allied with airlines, car rental agencies, other hotels, suppliers, travel agencies, and restaurants. Thus the hospitality industry includes multiple dimensions such as the tourism industry, the restaurant industry, and sundry other industries that are related to these industries. The hospitality industry includes the following segments: lodging (hotels), commercial food service (restaurants and catering), institutional food service, casinos, cruise lines, travel agency services, event services, convention hosting, arena services, sport complex management, resorts, parks, clubs, tourism, and transportation services related to the other segments of the industry. Read more:Â  OJT Experience in Restaurant It is exciting; in hospitality industry it will be never boring and offers unlimited opportunities to us. The hospitality industry is diverse enough for people to work in different areas of interest and still be employed within the hospitality industry. The Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management is a 4 year degree course that aims to develop the student to become a hotel and restaurant entrepreneurs and executives in the city of San Pablo in the province of Laguna and the entire country in general. It will provide the students with basic, liberal education and professional skills and entrepreneurship in the hotel and restaurant industry. Aside having a four year course it also offers a 2 year course which is the Diploma in Hotel and Restaurant Management that aims to provide skilled in hotel and restaurant employees and entrepreneurs in the San Pablo City Laguna. Being a certified student of the Laguna State Polytechnic University one of the pre-requisite of a student to be able to pass the courses chosen is On the Job training to undergo, On the Job training (OJT) is one of the best training methods because it is planned, organized and satisfied as the employee’s worksite. OJT will generally be the primary method used for broadening the employee’s skills and increasing productivity it is particularly appropriate for developing proficiency skills unique to as employee’s job- especially jobs that are relatively easy to learn and require locally-owned equipment and facilities. Through the experience and through the hard-work, the students the students itself will be urgently by its employment. The employability refers to a person’s capability of gaining initial employment, maintaining employment, and obtaining new employment if required (Hillage and Pollard 1998). In simple terms, employability is about being capable of getting and keeping fulfilling work. More comprehensively, employability is the capability to move self-sufficiently within the labor market to realize potential through sustainable employment. For individuals, employability depends on the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA’s) they posses, the way they use those assets and present them to employers and the context (e. g. personal circumstances and labor market environment) within which they seek work due to it. (Campbell, J. P. 1990) First, Campbell defines performance a behavior. It is something done by the employee. This concept differentiates performance from outcomes. Outcomes are the result of an individual’s performance, but they are also the result of other influences. In other words, there are more factors that determine outcomes than just an employee’s behaviors and actions. In Laguna State Polytechnic University the prestigious school provides a quality of education to pursue the students to learn everything that covers their chosen career; they give the students a lot of opportunities to experience a lot of things that some other students can’t experience in their chosen courses. The training affects the performance of the Hotel and Restaurant Management students in terms of what they experienced and what they have learned. Having training makes the students more confident to face any challenges that will measure the capabilities of their skill to handle the responsibilities given to them. Thus, training plays a big role in every Hotel and Restaurant Management student’s career, from this they will be out of their shell and will start to grow. Locking for a bright future with their mind and heart holding the learning’s they have got to make their performance the best of all the best. This research study could provide information that can help the department to pursue more possible opportunities for the Hotel and Restaurant Management Students, especially second year students, this could be a basis for them to know if the past graduate students learn from their OJT program, and if theirs something they can do for their selves to progress their training when its already their turn. Because to keep the students abreast to this fast changing industry the students need to updated and competent to be and effective Hotel and Restaurant Management students, because the industry needs an effective people in their chosen field, competent enough for what they have learned and more for development. Not only for their own development but also for the country’s development. Background of the Study: The researcher wants to find out what is the difference between the 4th year On the Job Training from their 2nd year On the Job Training to their employability. In the Laguna State Polytechnic University the On the Job training of the Hotel and Restaurant Management students will be conduct during their 2nd year and 4th year level of the school period. The students is supposed to use the things they have learned in school and consign it in during their practice this can improve their acquire skills and knowledge to Front office Management, Food and Beverage Management and Housekeeping Management, for them to be competitive enough and be employable in the future. There are trainees who seemed not too learned from their chosen establishment, maybe some students are not taking their training seriously because they think OJT is a simple requirement they need to complete, to pass the semester. Some establishment does not prioritize the trainee that’s why they only gained limited skills and facts from their chosen establishment. Sometimes the student is immovable in one area and do not swivel to another. So the result of this is lacking knowledge and skill to another area, because the establishment concentrates the students to what rea they have start with. The 4th year level On the Job training Program for the students is the verdict time for them to apply what they have really learned in four years of studying Hotel and Restaurant Management. In this level the researcher wants to find out the improvement of the students from their past training, whether the trainee’s are physically and mentally fit? Are their learning’s enough for them to be competitive is this field? Or are they are still the juvenile students that don’t take seriously from what they are doing?

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