Internship Literature Review

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Literature Review Introduction: From this article, related literatures reviewed to increase a better understanding of the many factors that contribute to internship satisfaction among business undergraduates. The structure of literature accessible for study will cover many aspects. Firstly, this study of the literature will be concentrate on intend of internship satisfaction. After that we go on to the reasons that bring internship satisfaction among Taylor’s University, school of hospitality, tourism and culinary arts undergraduates. Along the study, related theoretical models will be inspected. Also add in the chapter is a description of our proposed theoretical framework of the related studies. Through the proposed framework, we can develop…show more content…
Smits (2006) regarded internship as apprenticeship, while higher learning institutions in Malaysia normally label the term internship as industrial training (Curtin University of Technology, 2006; International Islamic University Malaysia, 2012; Sirat & Nordin, 2006; Universiti…show more content…
Students who have a satisfying internship experiences tend to have a more positive outlook toward their career search process and also toward their educational institution (Paulins, 2008 cited in Gupta et al., 2010). These students with satisfying internship experiences will be better able to contribute to their companies when they kick-start their careers. Knouse and Fontenot (2008) explored on the benefits of business internships and obtained findings from other researchers regarding the issue of satisfaction with internship experience. Cook, Parker, and Pettijohn (as cited in Knoues & Fontenot, 2008) found that over a 10-year period, the trend of satisfaction with internships is relatively stable. In addition, the authors also stated that Bass (2002) found that job satisfaction among women and those working for less than a year were higher, particularly when internship experiences were similar with their jobs. In their study of accounting students’ regional internship programme experiences, Cord et al. (2010) found that students indicated some level of dissatisfaction with the tasks allocated to them, however, most of these students indicated that they are aware of the reasons why they were allocated these tasks. Students’ roles in the organization, either assigned to passive or active roles will affect their level of internship satisfaction. Gupta et al. (2010) conducted a study among business interns
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