Two interrelated aspects of the debate on the nature of labour supply chain in the hotel industry form the focus of this research article. First, the notion of a shift to some forms of human resources recruitment strategies which seeks to use agency staff as a means of generating economical...

Purpose – This paper seeks to shift the focus to the implications of various quality management systems, as a pervasive feature of modern organisational life, for business excellence. Design/methodology/approach – A mail-based survey is conducted among a total of 150 UK-based European...

Using qualitative methodology in the form of semi-structured and in-depth interviews, this paper aims to understand the nature of relationship among hotel housekeeping managers, their partner agency managers, and their flexible workers. Based upon the interviewees’ responses and other...

Using a multiple case study, this paper is concerned with assessing the impact of senior management’s approach and attitudes on service quality and its implications for middle and first line managers. Date from 52 semi-structured interviews representing a variety of managerial levels suggests...

There is a plethora of literature to suggest that even in quality-oriented organizational contexts, the approach driving performance appraisal is fundamentally in conflict with Total Quality Management (TQM) precepts, which put heavy emphasis on systems-level features of performance management....

Purpose – This paper aims to address the question whether or not quality-driven organisations have, in practice, tended to adjust their performance appraisal systems to integrate total quality management (TQM) requirements. Design/methodology/approach – To do so, the findings of an initial...

The heavy emphasis on systems-level features that has characterised total quality management (TQM) view to performance management (PM) is not well suited to the current approach driving PM systems, a limitation that has not been recognised in the majority of TQM-driven organisations. Such...

Using a multiple case study, this paper is concerned with assessing the impact of senior management's approach and attitudes on service quality and its implications for middle and firstline managers. Date from 52 semi-structured interviews representing a variety of managerial levels suggests...

Using a survey, this paper provides information about the current state of performance management (appraisal) from a sample of UK-based EFQM-affiliated organizations. It particularly focuses on several critical issues of performance management in the context of TQM including: the effectiveness...

There is a plethora of literature to suggest that even in quality-oriented organizational contexts, the approach driving performance appraisal is fundamentally in conflict with Total Quality Management (TQM) precepts, which put heavy emphasis on systems-level features of performance management....