"Internships are the most popular form of experiential learning used in business schools worldwide, providing practical insight into a job role for students and enhancing their employability. This book provides practical resources that practitioners and students can use to maximize the overall internship experience. Explaining business education, internships, skill development, employment outcome as well as material to assist the development or enhancing of internship programs to create a high-quality internship course, as well as providing guidance on reflecting and evaluating the learning gained from the experience. Including quizzes and short activities, this book is reflective of an internship experience and can be used as a companion text for any student participating in an internship, or as a guide that practitioners in this field can use to help design their own internship program and course content. Business schools are increasing their focus on experiential learning and are encouraging faculty to incorporate internships into their existing curriculum. Linking theory, history and practice, this book is ideal reading for students participating in an internship for academic credit and as a guidebook for business school practitioners that wish to start or improve their existing academic internship program"--

Research shows that internships are the dominant form of experiential learning used in business schools worldwide, providing practical insight into a job role for students and enhancing their employability. This book provides practical resources that practitioners and students can use to maximize the overall internship experience by explaining business education, internships, skill development, and employment outcomes. It also includes material to assist in the development or enhancement of internship programs to create a high-quality internship course while providing guidance on reflecting and evaluating the learning gained from the experience. Including quizzes and short activities, this book can be used as a companion text for any student participating in an internship, or as a guide that practitioners in this field can use to help design their own internship program and course content. Business schools are increasing their focus on experiential learning and are encouraging faculty to incorporate internships into their existing curriculum. Linking theory, history, and practice, this book is ideal reading for students participating in an internship for academic credit and as a guidebook for business school practitioners who wish to start or improve their existing academic internship program.

"Includes more than 20,000 internship opportunities"--Cover.

Total Internship Management: The Employer's Guide to Building the Ultimate Internship Program bridges that gap with offer innovative articles by leading industry experts on typically unaddressed aspects of internship programs: understanding the next generation of college students, successful methods of assessment, effective coaching tactics, relevant legal issues, and detailed compensation data. With Total Internship Management, your organization will acquire the skills and knowledge to effectively utilize your interns. Based on the National Internship & Co-op Study - the largest internship research project in the United States over the past nine years - Total Internship Management draws from real life experiences from more than 500,000 college students and more than 500 organizations to help you bring effective techniques and practices to all facets of your internship program, from knowing if your organization is ready to start recruiting, to properly evaluating your interns on the job, to identifying and retaining future employees.

This book can be used as the text for an internship course book or as a "how to" manual for anyone wanting to setup a successful internship experience. Whether you are looking to land a great internship or already have an internship and want to increase the odds that it will be an excellent learning experience, this book can help. The content of the book is based on the experiences of Michael P. Griffin, Internship Director and Accounting Professor at the Charlton College of Business at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

To meet the demand of the industry, university sport management students must possess experience. The internship experience has been identified as the most critical element for the professional preparation of future sport managers. Since many students may have a peripheral understanding of the inner workings of the sport industry, A Practical Guide to Sport Management Internships is designed to offer undergraduate and graduate students as well as the internship supervisor in-depth pedagogical and legal insights to be better prepared for the experience. "Miller and Seidler have compiled a nifty resource that provides an overview of the role of internships in sport management programs... Along with discussions useful to faculty looking to establish or enhance an internship program, they address the different types of internships to consider and various tools for students... Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE Magazine, September 2010

The tourism industry is an industry of people and is directly dependent on the performance of activities, skills, professionalism, quality, and competitiveness. Approaching the perspective of people management stresses the need to humanize companies, making empowerment and commitment easier. These are key to setting “talents” and, more importantly, to encouraging these individuals to put their creative capacities to the service of the companies for which they work. Only by being collaborative internally does business gain competitive capacity in the global marketplace. This aspect is crucial in tourism in the face of strong and growing competition in the sector. Human Capital and People Management in the Tourism Industry is a crucial reference source that reveals groundbreaking human resource policies for tourism destinations, revolutionary human capital managerial business approaches in tourism, innovative tourism training perspectives, and new tourism qualification prospects. Featuring research on topics such as intellectual capital, human resource management, and financial performance, this book is ideally designed for business managers, entrepreneurs, human resource officers, industry professionals, academicians, students, and researchers.