Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry


Book Description

Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry explores a wide range of subjects within the talent management field, including employer branding, creative talent, talent pools, and mentoring initiatives, along with a focus on talent identification, development, and retention.




Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry


Book Description

Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry explores a wide range of subjects within the talent management field, including employer branding, creative talent, talent pools, and mentoring initiatives, along with a focus on talent identification, development, and retention.




Critical Questions in Sustainability and Hospitality


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Informed by the scholarly and practical viewpoints of a myriad of internationally recognised experts, this engaging and timely volume poses a set of pertinent questions that cover critical and contemporary sustainability issues in hospitality and tourism and proposes actionable solutions. Embellished with informative tables, diagrams and photographs, key questions and debates are discussed from a variety of angles with proposed solutions by industry practitioners, academics and consultants belonging to the Hospitality Net World Panel on Sustainability in Hospitality. Designed to facilitate contemporary discussion and debate, this book presents constructive dialogues which are designed to lead to action within the hospitality industry and education. Key questions cover the following topics: • Major contemporary sustainability challenges – e.g. climate change, biodiversity loss, impacts of pandemics, water scarcity, human right risks. • Specific hospitality functions or departments – e.g. food and beverage, engineering, health and safety, guest relationship, finance, purchasing, human resources. • Strategic issues related to marketing and stakeholder relationships – e.g. sustainability working groups, return on sustainability investment, marketing and reporting sustainability, certification, supplier relationship, engaging guests. This book is an essential reading for students and academics in the field of hospitality and tourism management, as well as industry professionals searching for answers to the challenges they face in enacting sustainability in their business.




Human Relations Management in Tourism


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In the competitive world of the tourism sector, effective human resources management has become a critical factor in determining the success and sustainability of organizations. Human Relations Management in Tourism delves into the key aspects of this essential discipline, exploring the intersection of marketing management, human resource management, and the latest trends in the tourism industry. As the world faces unprecedented challenges and other crises, the book highlights the enduring effects on individuals, businesses, communities, and destinations. Occupational stress, an ongoing concern in the hospitality industry, can lead to conflict among team members or between employees and their roles. By shedding light on this issue, the book seeks to offer valuable insights to undergraduate students, graduate students, professionals, practitioners, and researchers involved in the field of tourism management. As work practices and human resource guidelines undergo transformation in response to the pandemic context, the book provides a thoughtful reflection on the new trends and practices emerging in Human Resources and Marketing Management within the tourism industry. Some of the focal points include the exploration of Green Human Resources, The Human Resource Balanced Scorecard (HRBSC), corporate events, team-building trends, employee empowerment, job satisfaction, and best practices in human resource management specific to the tourism sector.




Talent Management


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This book contains an Open Access chapter. Aimed at researchers, postgraduate students, and professionals in the field, Talent Management: A Decade of Developments charts the evolution of talent management, illustrating the progress, prospects, and challenges that have transpired over the last ten years.




Talent Management in Higher Education


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The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This short book aims to present an overview of empirical research on Talent Management, and offers an integrated model that addresses the full nature and scope of TM in practice.




Global Talent Retention


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Through extensive research Global Talent Retention: Understanding Employee Turnover Around the World addresses the need for turnover theory and research to give more careful consideration to global and cross-cultural perspectives on employee retention, and includes contributions from a global range of scholars.




Talent Disruption


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This book proposes a solution to the human capital challenges faced by service industries amidst unprecedented labor shortages, and technological and geopolitical shifts. It offers a framework for diagnosing the root causes of talent disruption. Talent Disruption provides a detailed roadmap and tools for building a talent engine powered by AI, big data, and analytics. The results are a growing talent pipeline, greater productivity, and higher profit margins.




Workplace Innovation


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This book focuses on workplace innovation, which is a key element in ensuring that organizations and the people within them can adapt to and engage in healthy, sustainable change. It features a collection of multi-level, multi-disciplinary contributions that combine theory, research and practical perspectives. In addition, the book presents new perspectives from a number of nations on policies with novel theoretical approaches to workplace innovation, as well as international case studies on the subject. These cases highlight the role of leadership, the relation between workplace innovation and well-being, as well as the do’s and don’ts of workplace innovation implementation. Whether you are an experienced workplace practitioner, manager, a policy-maker, unionist, or a student of workplace innovation, this book contains a range of tips, tools and international case studies to help the reader understand and implement workplace innovation.




The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management


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At last, a comprehensive, systematically organized Handbook which gives a reliable and critical guide to all aspects of one of the world′s leading industries: the hospitality industry. The book focuses on key aspects of the hospitality management curriculum, research and practice bringing together leading scholars throughout the world. Each essay examines a theme or functional aspect of hospitality management and offers a critical overview of the principle ideas and issues that have contributed, and continue to contribute, within it. Topics include: • The nature of hospitality and hospitality management • The relationship of hospitality management to tourism, leisure and education provision • The current state of development of the international hospitality business • The core activities of food, beverage and accommodation management • Research strategies in hospitality management • Innovation and entrepreneurship trends • The role of information technology The SAGE Handbook of Hospitality Management constitutes a single, comprehensive source of reference which will satisfy the information needs of both specialists in the field and non-specialists who require a contemporary introduction to the hospitality industry and its analysis. Bob Brotherton formerly taught students of Hospitality and Tourism at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also taught Research Methods to Hospitality and Tourism students at a number of international institutions as a visiting lecturer; Roy C. Wood is based in the Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development, India