Subject category:
Human Resource Management / Organisational Behaviour
Published by:
Harvard Business Publishing
Version: 9 August 1989
Length: 13 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
A brand new hotel has opened with a new service strategy: import to America Asian-style service using a butler-like employee group called the personal valets. To achieve this high level of service, the hotel has paid great attention to its human resource policies, believing that the quality of its service will depend on the quality and motivation of the people. It articulates a series of employee 'rights', which it tells employees are enforceable in court. Upon opening employees are excited and highly motivated but soon morale and quality problems develop. The students must evaluate the hotel's human resource management theory and practice in light of these problems.
Locations:
Industry:
Size:
400 employees
Other setting(s):
1988
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Abstract
A brand new hotel has opened with a new service strategy: import to America Asian-style service using a butler-like employee group called the personal valets. To achieve this high level of service, the hotel has paid great attention to its human resource policies, believing that the quality of its service will depend on the quality and motivation of the people. It articulates a series of employee 'rights', which it tells employees are enforceable in court. Upon opening employees are excited and highly motivated but soon morale and quality problems develop. The students must evaluate the hotel's human resource management theory and practice in light of these problems.
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Locations:
Industry:
Size:
400 employees
Other setting(s):
1988