Portman Hotel Case Study

In the Case Study "Maple Leaf Shoes, Recruiting," Clark president of the shoe company has to devise a plan within a month to strategically integrate automation in his business to meet the union's demands. He is also concerned with the loss of major stakeholders from foreign competitors and the emerging Indian Shoe Company that produces higher, superior, and unique quality and brand compared to his. Not to mention, Clark has legal issues with the Human Rights Commision pertaining discriminatory practices toward females in the workplace; in which they require him to review and alter job requirement for the supervisory position. With the gravity of the situation, Clark resolved to hire a new Human resource manager, considering his previous one resigned, and his other two employees who handled human resource functions were unavailable. He used the same template when hiring the former manager and made minor changes, and put the new ad on a newspaper without thorough planning. After that, Clark hired Joy to search because he recalls that she runs a temporary help agency. Clark also has a consultant that is writing up a job description but dismissed that idea because it was unnecessary to him.

Hypothesis 2: It might be that Boston Pine Street Inn housing the chronically homeless for a longer period of time than need be, which caused Pine Street Inn to use more services helping them to sustain a functioning life.

In Bangkok, Thailand, a group of financial investors invested in a hotel called The Regency Grand Hotel. This hotel is the most cherished hotel in town, where the employees and guests enjoy spending time at this five-star hotel. This place hosts approximate 700 employees that give fantastic benefits, year-end bonuses and ensures job security.

Waves international hotel is a large hotel which resides in the Sultnate of Oman, whereby having branches in Muscat and Salalah, Dhofar. The hotel has come a long way ever since its pre opening in 15th July, 2012 with the aim of extending their brand chain locally and internationally. The hotel serves to provide luxurious accommodation along with breakfast, lunch and dinner buffet facility. Furthermore, the hotel have the amenity of gym, swimming pool for adults and kids both, room service, 24 hours free wi-fi and reception service for their respective guests to ease their stay in Oman. Waves international hotel aims to become a leading hospitality management to express the Omani culture to the world by expanding and enlarging its business

This paper describe Stamford Plaza Hotel Auckland. It is a five star hotel located in Auckland City center. Stamford Plaza as a multinational company owned by Stamford Land Corporation Limited, has strong market position in New Zealand and Australia. Its target market focus on luxury and top level travelers. By using effective 4P’s marketing instruments, Stamford Plaza Auckland attracts loyalty customers and develop new potential guests. We also use SWOT analysis to demonstrate the competitive advantages and disadvantages the hotel is facing with. Via analyzing threats and opportunities, we can give some recommendations on hotel market strategies. Finally, we get the conclusion on hotel outlook.

The Portman Hotel executives were committed to keeping both their guest and employees happy. The vision that would separate The Portman from the competition was “personal valets” (PVs). These PVs were responsible to every need of a guest. This included everything from cleaning and restocking the rooms, to more personalized services like pressing the guest’s clothes, preparing the guest’s drinks, or drawing a guest’s bath. As long the requests from the guests were legal and moral it was the PVs

This case analysis paper; will go over the issues found in a recruiting process made by Carl Robins. Due to the lack of training given to Carl when he started, he was unable to complete his job successfully.

he insured, Shree Krishna, Inc. DBA, Harbor Inn & Suites Motel has owned this property for four years. Insured occupies no portion of the premises, but does employ an on -site resident manager. The property contains 39 motel rooms. Upstairs rooms are accessed by an exterior staircase. There is a large open parking lot on the property. There is no swimming pool or other recreational facilities. The building is approximately 55 years old. Insured stated that the roof was updated with new underlayment, flashing and asphalt shingles in 2014, but no recent upgrades have been made to the plumbing or HVAC systems.

The case study shows that the company has a very poor recruitment process. The customer service supervisor was not experienced in the interviewing, and hiring. Had the recruitment been well monitored the customer service supervisor would have been required to follow the guidelines to the latter. Following the guidelines specified for the position the supervisor would have conducted much better interviews and selections.

The main objective of the company is not only to attract but also to retain staff who are interested to work in the hotel business for the five-star level of high service, taking into account the wishes of clients, and which offers an innovative, dynamic environment and reflects the culture of the local country. To achieve this, Hyatt strives to be a company listening to well-informed and concerned people. Hyatt provides plenty of opportunities at all levels for their employees, which are accompanied by numerous development

From the description of the case study, it seems that the reason lead the Portman Hotel to this terrible situation was that their HR policies were inconsistent with its strategies. The Portman Hotel's philosophy is that if they want their customers treated better, they must treat each other better. They also think the Portman Hotel is a place where they can make their employees feel satisfied with their jobs. Their jobs will be fun and they will fulfill their expectations. The employees will have the best work experiences. Besides, the Portman Hotel expects to be the best employer in San Francisco. They are willing to show their trust and pride in their employees. That's why the hotel considered their "associates" of the highest potential,

In today’s ever competitive business environment companies are constantly competing for business and the market has become more demanding and difficult to break into. In order for companies to be successful it is necessary to conduct market research and make calculated decisions in order to mitigate financial losses. There are many steps that an organization can follow to achieve the following however we have highlighted a few important aspects below that the Protea OR Tambo hotel can consider when embarking on such an exercise.

Next one is the perception errors of Janet, the client manager and human resource director. The third problem is George was forced in the stress situation. Another issue is George’s dissatisfaction about job and work behaviors which caused to the exit-voice-loyalty-neglect actions. The fifth is teamwork environment, processes and the last problem is ABC consulting failed to implement the motivation procedures in motivating its staffs.

?A Nice Manager? case study is about the Chisum Industries? ready to promote within the company. The middle-level management can be promoted to top management. The top management team consist of six members Chisum, Jacobson,. Ivey, Hughes and Kennedy (Daft, 2014, p.487). The top management team is having an open discussion about potential candidates to run the San Antonio office. Harry is a middle level manager (Daft, 2014, p.487) who is being considered for Dallas interviews. In the discussion, Harry?s management skills are being discussed within the top management meeting.

In this case, Elite Hotel is planning to employs a total of 300 full-time staff across 7 departments for locals are cheaper than their foreign counterparts. It is good news to the hotel owners and also forces hotel management companies to think carefully when staffing a hotel. As Tim Williams (2013) addressed, "Do not hire expats as Resident Manager, Rooms or F&B Director unless you think they have the potential to push through to GM."