Hospitality Faculty

Abstract

Administrators can motivate hospitality-faculty members as a group through concern for higher-order needs. Consideration of the individual's goals and values is a cornerstone of an effective motivational plan, especially as experience, age, and job security increase. There are stages in the career development of the hospitality-faculty member. Individuals in the new-faculty stage should move to the authority-congruence stage, where they are expert in the knowledge and skill required. The undesirable authority-incongruence stage comprises expert faculty members whose performance has diminished. Such faculty members may either be revitalized or they may function as persons who are ready to exit, that is, who are “on-the-job retired.”