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The Role of Soft Skills in Improving Employee Performance: an Applied Study on Tourism Companies in Canal Cities

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Last updated: 24 Dec 2024

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Talent management

Abstract

Soft Skills currently represent an inevitable necessity that an 
individual must acquire to help development, progress, and success 
at work. Therefore, the current research aimed to reveal the role of 
soft skills in improving the performance of workers in tourism 
companies in the canal cities, using the descriptive approach, and the 
researcher relied on the questionnaire method as a tool to collect 
Data: The research sample consisted of workers in tourism 
companies in the Canal cities (Suez, Ismailia, and Port Said). The 
number of sample members was (350) workers in tourism companies 
in the Canal cities, with (180 males) and (170 females). The results 
of the research revealed the existence of a positive, statistically 
significant correlation at the significance level (0.01) between soft 
skills and the performance of workers with each other. Some (at the 
level of dimensions and total degree) among workers in tourism 
companies in the Canal Cities, and the presence of a statistically 
significant effect of soft skills in improving the performance of 
workers in tourism companies in the Canal Cities." There are no 
statistically significant differences at the level of significance (≤ 
0.05) between the averages of the responses of the study sample 
members regarding the dimensions of soft skills and the dimension 
of employees' performance according to the gender variable. The 
research came out with several recommendations, the most important 
of which is continuous training to provide workers with soft skills, as 
they have become an essential element in developing workers and 
raising the level of Their performance, as it enables them to 
communicate and interact more effectively within the work 
environment

DOI

10.21608/jaauth.2024.321208.1609

Keywords

soft skills, employee performance, tourism companies

Authors

First Name

Mona

Last Name

Gad

MiddleName

SalahEldin Elsayed

Affiliation

Faculty of Tourism and Hotels - Suez Canal University - Ismailia

Email

manoonsalah038@gmail.com

City

الاسماعيلية

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First Name

Nevin

Last Name

Eid

MiddleName

Jalal

Affiliation

Department of Tourism Studies – Faculty of Tourism and Hotels –Suez Canal University

Email

nevin_eid@tourism.suez.edu.eg

City

-

Orcid

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First Name

Heba

Last Name

Al-Akhras

MiddleName

Atef

Affiliation

Department of Tourism Studies – Faculty of Tourism and Hotels –Suez Canal University

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-

City

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Volume

27

Article Issue

2

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51295

Issue Date

2024-12-01

Receive Date

2024-09-16

Publish Date

2024-10-01

Page Start

1

Page End

21

Print ISSN

1687-1863

Online ISSN

2682-4612

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997

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Publication Title

Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Role of Soft Skills in Improving Employee Performance: an Applied Study on Tourism Companies in Canal Cities

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24 Dec 2024