The hotel industry utilises the concept of human resource practices system differentiation (HRPSD) by focusing resources on managerial level jobs as a technique of strategic human resource management (SHRM). Despite its use in both practice and the academic literature, research focusing on HRPSD...

Viral marketing is the business approach that uses peer-to-peer communications to increase product awareness and adoptions through widespread social networks of receivers. Benefiting from the unprecedented fast growth of online social networks, this marketing maneuver merits a deeper...

The main thrust of this study was to decide if certain strategies exist that havesignificant impact on profit in a lodging establishment. In reviewing the literature it didnot contain any conceptual plan for operating a lodging facility completely. However,as noted in the literature review,...

Common perception by practitioners in the hotel industry today thata satisfied guest would become a repeat customer was considered as amajor subject of this research. It determined the extent to whichsatisfaction fostered loyalty. Interviewing guests and demonstrating theexpression of visual...

This study looks at predicted and actual hotel rates for 1992 from theCorporate Travel Index. The Corporate Travel Index survey, which is conductedannually by Corporate Travel Magazine in conjunction with Rochester Instituteof Technology, is analyzed from an accuracy stand point.Forecasts in the...

Hotel industry is characterized as one of the oldest, diverse, innovative, and important industries around the world. Given the low entry barriers for global markets, it is also highly attractive, and its greatest growth happens on international level. Hotel chains are the leaders in hotel...

What relationship exists between working conditions and teacher turnover in child-care (early care and education) programs? Research has shown high staff turnover is a major factor affecting the quality of care. Using a new survey and data set I designed of union and randomly selected non-union...

International acquisitions are extremely difficult to maneuver and success is far from guaranteed. Navigating through financial statements is one thing, but trying to link together two or more geographically and culturally diverse workforces is an entirely another thing. This study analyzes...

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that within-country regional variation in inherited human capital in four such economies explains the bulk of regional variation in unemployment; we explore potential explanations. Our evidence...

This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers' labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment,...