Hospitality Employee Management and Supervision

In many hospitality establishments, one manager or supervisor is the entire human resources department, making all the hiring and training decisions, often without having a formal human resources background. Filling this knowledge gap, <b><i>Hospitality Employee Management and Supervision</i></b> provides both busy professionals and students with a one-stop comprehensive guide to human resources in the hospitality industry. <p>Rather than taking a theoretical approach, this text provides a hands-on, practical, and applications-based approach. The coverage is divided into four sections: legal considerations, employee selection, employee orientation and training, and communication and motivation.</p> <p>Each chapter in this lively and engaging text features:</p> <ul> <li>Quotations——Various practitioners in the hospitality industry highlight the chapter’s focus</li> <li>Chapter Objectives and Summaries lay out key concepts and then, at the end of each chapter, review them</li> <li>HRM in Action features highlight real-world HRM experiences that relate to the content presented in each chapter</li> <li>Tales from the Field——Hospitality employees provide accounts of the various challenges they face in the industry</li> <li>Ethical Dilemmas——Scenarios from the hospitality industry which emphasize the role ethics plays in every aspect of the hospitality industry</li> <li>Practice Quizzes and Chapter Review Questions reinforce student comprehension of key concepts</li> <li>Hands-On HRM——Mini-cases based on real-world situations with discussion questions</li> <li>Chapter Key Terms——Bolded within the chapter and then listed at the end of each chapter with definitions.</li> </ul>