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A marriage of convenience: How employers and students working in hospitality view the employment relationship

Evans, Claire; Ritchie, Caroline; Drew, Hilary; Ritchie, Felix

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Claire Evans

Caroline Ritchie

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Dr Hilary Lowe hilary.lowe@uwe.ac.uk
School Director (Partnerships & International)



Abstract

Since the 1990s, the hospitality industry has been increasingly characterized by temporary and insecure forms of employment, a development, which has coincided with rising numbers of students seeking part-time employment. This provides increased job competition for non-students and would appear to be of primary benefit to the employer in terms of an enhanced labour pool. This study reports the findings from seven semi-structured interviews with hospitality employers and six student focus groups (31 participants) in South-West England and Wales. It suggests that hospitality employers manage students and non-students to complement each other, particularly with reference to working time preferences. There is evidence that employers pay more attention to the welfare and needs of nonstudent workers in order to protect their core of full-time and permanent parttime staff. However, when employing students, employers and students take a pragmatic commercial view of their symbiotic relationship and both parties report satisfaction with this arrangement. Employers also consider both student and nonstudents as potential leaders. Finally, the study shows that student-employees can, and frequently do, provide long-term commitment to employers, contradicting the usual view of student work as transitory within the hospitality industry.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Aug 5, 2022
Online Publication Date Aug 24, 2022
Publication Date Sep 1, 2022
Deposit Date Aug 12, 2022
Publicly Available Date Aug 25, 2023
Journal Hospitality and Society
Print ISSN 2042-7913
Publisher Intellect
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 12
Issue 3
Pages 299-318
DOI https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00055_1
Keywords student-employment; part-time; hospitality; casual work; employment synergy; local work-force
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9853358
Publisher URL https://www.intellectbooks.com/hospitality-society

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This is the author’s accepted manuscript of the article published in Hospitality & Society, Volume 12, Number 3, 1 September 2022, pp. 299-318(20). The final published version is available here: https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp_00055_1

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