Discusses the challenges facing HR departments in harnessing the potential of work‐based management development programmes. The article considers the research carried out by Mumford on executive learning styles and considers this in the context of the development of life‐long learning skills...

The private club industry is undergoing major change as it forges new links with academia in the areas of research, teaching and management development. This bodes well for hospitality management programmes. Indeed, the primary mission of most hospitality programmes in North America includes the...

This article posits a model to describe a learning process that may be applied to the development of leadership practices of hospitality managers who are current practitioners in hotels, resorts and other hospitality establishments. The premise of the model is found in the academic disciplines...

Purpose – The paper aims to present and discuss research findings on the relationship between culture and learning styles, as defined by Honey and Mumford, and the potential implications for both hospitality management education as well as for the training and career development of...

Objectives being set by governmental, educational and industrial bodies suggest that future managers need to be reflective practitioners, and this issue will have to be addressed by hospitality educators. The paper suggests that if educators are to meet targets to achieve general standards of...

The Meetings, Incentive, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) industry has long been recognised as a sector that provides lucrative direct and indirect expenditure for host destinations. Within Australia, Federal and State governments have recognised the opportunity afforded by this sector and...

This paper emphasizes the importance of learning in the workplace through reflecting after action, as in Kolb's experiential learning cycle. One of the most effective ways of producing insights from personal experience is by keeping a learning log as a means of reflecting upon, and articulating...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide qualitative insight into a unique, collaborative project undertaken by BAA (Glasgow) and Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) over a three‐year period at Glasgow International Airport. Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative case evidence is...

Presents the findings of a survey of graduates who received the higher national diploma in hotel, catering and institutional management at Norwich in 1984. With the benefit of ten years′ experienced hindsight they identify the skills that they feel they gained and those that they felt were not...

Reviews the work published over the last ten years on the subject of the evaluation of individual and organizational learning. The emerging arguments are based on the proposition that the decision to provide training and management development is a strategic investment decision and as such is...