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Managing Hospitality Organizations
Achieving Excellence in the Guest Experience

Second Edition
January 2019 | 576 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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Prepares students for a future career in hospitality management by outlining the key skills needed to become a successful manager in the service industry, with a particular emphasis on ensuring managers provide guests with a high-quality customer experience.

 

The book breaks hospitality management down into core principles, with each chapter focusing on a specific factor, including strategy, staffing and systems. All of which are supported by practical advice, examples, and Wow! Boxes, which provide evidence of best practice in service-sector organizations, including Walt Disney, Southwest Airlines, and The Four Seasons.

 

The new edition reflects the latest changes in the service industry and newer developments related to sustainability and technology. There is also an outline of the framework needed to motivate employees to provide exceptional service, and how to create a culture that consistently delivers a top quality customer experience.

 

The book is supported by online resources for instructors and students, including: Test Bank, PowerPoint slides, an Instructor’s Manual, Multimedia, Exercises and Assignments, Sample Syllabi, Flashcards, and Quizzes.

Ideal reading for undergraduate students on Hospitality Management and Hotel Management courses.

 
Foreword
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Introduction
 
SECTION I. THE HOSPITALITY SERVICE STRATEGY
 
1. The Basics of Wow! The Guest Knows Best
Introduction

 
Guestology: What is it?

 
The Guest Experience

 
Guest Expectations

 
Quality, Value, and Cost Defined

 
The Importance of Guestology

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
2. Meeting Guest Expectations through Planning
Introduction

 
Three Generic Strategies

 
The Hospitality Planning Cycle

 
Assessing the Environment

 
Assessing the Organization Itself: The Internal Assessment

 
Vision and Mission Statements

 
Developing the Service Strategy

 
Action Plans

 
Involving Employees in Planning

 
The Uncertain Future

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
3. Setting the Scene for the Guest Experience
Introduction

 
Creating “The Show”

 
Why is the Environment Important?

 
A Model: How the Service Environment Affects the Guest

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
4. Developing the Hospitality Culture: Everyone Serves!
Introduction

 
The Importance of Leaders

 
The Importance of Culture

 
Culture as a Competitive Advantage

 
Beliefs, Values, and Norms

 
Culture and the Environment

 
Communicating the Culture

 
Changing the Culture

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
SECTION II. THE HOSPITALITY SERVICE STAFF
 
5. Staffing for Service
Introduction

 
The Many Employees of the Hospitality Industry

 
The First Step: Study the Job

 
The Second Step: Recruit a Pool of Qualified Candidates

 
The Third Step: Select the Best Candidate

 
The Fourth Step: Hire the Best Applicant

 
The Fifth Step: Make the New Hire Feel Welcome

 
The Sixth Step: Turnover—Retaining the Best and Selecting People out of an Organization

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
6. Training and Developing Employees to Serve
Introduction

 
Employee Training

 
Developing a Training Program

 
Types of Training

 
Training Methods

 
Challenges and Pitfalls of Training

 
Employee Development

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
7. Serving with a Smile: Motivating Exceptional Service
Introduction

 
Motivating Employees

 
The Needs People Have

 
The Rewards Managers can Provide

 
Ways Rewards Can Motivate

 
How Managers and Leaders Provide the Right Direction

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
8. Involving the Guest: The Co-Creation of Value
Introduction

 
The Guest Can Help!

 
Strategies for Involving the Guest

 
Determining Where Co-Production Makes Sense

 
One Last Point: Firing the Guest

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
Section III. The Hospitality Service Delivery System
 
9. Communicating for Service
Introduction

 
The Challenge of Managing Information

 
Information and the Service Product

 
Information and the Service Setting

 
Information and the Delivery System

 
Decision Support Systems

 
The Hospitality Organization as an Information System

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
10. Planning the Service Delivery System
Introduction

 
Planning and Designing the Service Delivery System

 
Developing the Service Delivery System

 
Planning Techniques

 
Targeting Specific Problem Areas in Service Delivery Systems

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
11. Waiting for Service
Introduction

 
Capacity and Psychology: Keys to Managing Lines

 
Queuing Theory: Managing the Reality of the Wait

 
Managing the Perception of the Wait

 
Service Value and the Wait

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
12. Measuring and Managing Service Delivery
Introduction

 
Techniques and Methods for Assessing Service Quality

 
Measuring Service Quality After the Experience

 
SERVQUAL

 
Finding and Using the Technique that Fits

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
13. Fixing Service Failures
Introduction

 
Service Failures: Types, Where, and Why

 
The Importance of Fixing Service Failures

 
Dealing With Service Failures

 
Recovering From Service Failure

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
14. Service Excellence: Leading the Way to Wow!
Introduction

 
The Three Ss: Strategy, Staffing, and Systems

 
Hospitality and the Future

 
Leading the Way Into the Future

 
Leading and Managing

 
It all Begins—and Ends—with the Guest

 
Lessons Learned

 
 
Glossary
 
Additional Readings
 
Index

Supplements

Instructor Resource Site

Instructor Teaching Site (Password Protected)

SAGE edge for Instructors, supports your teaching by making it easy to integrate quality content and create a rich learning environment for students. 

  • Test banks provide a diverse range of pre-written options as well as the opportunity to edit any question and/or insert your own personalized questions to effectively assess students’ progress and understanding
  • Sample course syllabi provide suggested models for structuring your courses
  • Editable, chapter-specific PowerPoint® slides offer complete flexibility for creating a multimedia presentation for your course 
  • The Instructor's Manual contains numerous resources for each chapter, including lecture outlines, answers to review questions, suggested activities, suggested discussion topics for Ethics in Business Feature, and case notes. These resources are collated in the Instructor's Manual files, and are also available separately on this website.
  • Multimedia content includes videos that appeal to students with different learning styles
  • Additional Readings provide a jumping-off point for course assignments, papers, research, group work, and class discussion.
Student Study Site

Student Study Site (Open Access)

SAGE edge for Students provides a personalized approach to help students accomplish their coursework goals in an easy-to-use learning environment.

  • Mobile-friendly eFlashcards strengthen understanding of key terms and concepts 
  • Mobile-friendly practice quizzes allow students to independently assess their mastery of course material
  • Learning objectives reinforce the most important material
  • Multimedia resources facilitate student use of Internet resources, further exploration of topics, and responses to critical thinking questions
  • Additional Readings for further study.

Robert C. Ford

Robert C. Ford (Ph.D., Arizona State University) is professor emeritus of management in the College of Business Administration (COBA) of the University of Central Florida (UCF) where he has taught management of service organizations. He joined UCF as the chair of its hospitality department. He was also the COBA Associate Dean for Graduate and External Programs. Bob has authored or coauthored numerous publications in both top research and practitioner journals. He has served on several editorial boards including Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, British Journal of Management, Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, Journal of... More About Author

Michael Craig Sturman

Michael C. Sturman (Ph.D., Cornell University) is the Kenneth and Marjorie Blanchard Professor of Human Resources at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. Since 2000, he has studied the practice of human resources in the hospitality industry, with a particular focus on the hiring and compensation of line-level employees. He has served as the Associate Dean for Faculty Development of the Hotel School, and has been a visiting professor at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne.             Over his career, Michael has taught undergraduate, graduate, and executive-level courses on... More About Author

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