This study tests the argument that human resource management in hotels enhances service-recovery performance and job satisfaction through empowering front-line employees to respond to service failures. After an initial phase of qualitative interviewing, dyadic data were gathered through a...

Purpose: This article harmonizes the causal diagram with the objective tree to evaluate service quality and to identify action strategies that improve the quality of service in the hotel industry.Design/methodology/approach: In stage I, we obtained the quality perception records of 127...