...Housekeeping Several years of working my last job consisted of Housekeeping in many Resorts and Hotels of which I have only had maybe a total of 5 years of experience because it’s basically a seasonal job in the area of where I live. Housekeeping as it is called has many areas to perform your duties most of them has a map or a certain description of how it should be done. I will begin by describing the duties as well as the managerial side of housekeeping. Housekeeping responsibilities are cleaning guest rooms, public areas/lobby and restrooms and other related duties. Some areas may include pool areas/ patio, management offices, storage areas, linen and sewing rooms, some places may have weight rooms as well as laundry rooms to clean. Just to name a few. On the managerial side of things one must make sure Basic Planning Activities, Productivity Standard Worksheet, Inventory Levels, Organizing, the Department Organization Chart, Chart of the Small or Large Range Service Hotel, and Job List Description of Duties, as well as Coordinating Staff, along with Directing and Controlling, and Evaluating is such a tedious job to perform. As I am Using Basic Planning Activities, the usual planning is done daily. There are daily activities to follow such as the areas to be maintained and kept cleaned. In this area one must decide how often it should get done. Also a person must know what it would take to keeping this area cleaned like what’s needed...
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...Housekeeping Overview - This department is considered to be a vital part of the rooms division. - Housekeeping department maintains a smooth communication or relations with the front desk ensuring that the hotel’s main products are ready for sale. - The following are the main tasks of the housekeeping department: o Clean and prepare guests’ rooms o Maintain cleanliness and orderliness of hotel common areas (lobby, entry, main rest rooms, function areas and foyer) o Determine what rooms are to be cleaned / made up. o Determine what rooms are available and occupied. The Executive Housekeeper - Also known as the “Housekeeping Manager” - Is accountable for the department in terms of staff deployment and development, operational standards and profitability. - In a successful housekeeping management, delegation, community guidance and direction are key skills required by housekeeping manager. - It is the executive housekeeper who owns the accountability for standards of cleanliness, maintenance and financial performance within the housekeeping department. Housekeeping Management and Control Systems • On Staffing – to ensure that the housekeeping department is well-manned and no area in the hotel is left unattended, distribution of responsibilities is very important. o Rooms Maintenance Supervisor – he/she directs and controls rooms keeping activities like room make up, installation of mini-bar and other room amenities ensuring that all of these are conforming to the prescribed...
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...PRINCIPLES OF CLEANING The Basic principles of cleaning will provide the housekeeper the knowledge on what and how to clean a certain area. This involves the following: 1. Recognize the different types of dirt. 2. Know the elements of cleaning. 3. Apply cleaning methods. 1. DIRT – is a residue we remove or clean in every area. 2. DIFFERENT TYPES OF DIRT 1. DUST – is the baisc source of dirt. It is a form of particles. 2. SOIL – when the dust are mixed with water and oil. 3. STAIN – when patches of soil dry up in any surface. 4. TARNISH or DISCOLORATION – is caused by stains that were not removed for sometime. CLEANING ELEMENTS When cleaning, we can not just hold a piece of rag and wipe the dirty spot. There are four elements that we need to combine in order to clean effectively. These elements of cleaning are: time, mechanical action, chemical action and temperature. Time combines with all other elements of cleaning. When performing mechanical action, it will take time to remove the dirt, Chemical application to dirt requires time to take effect or react to the dirt. Time chemical action and mechanical action make a good cleaning combination. On instances, when the types of dirt could not be removed by the first three elements, Temperature shall be required to effectively complete the cleaning process. For Example: 1. greasy pots could not be cleaned well despite the application of the first three elements. However...
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...What can you contribute to make your country a better place to live in. ♠ As an individual You can make your house and front yard look attractive, be kind to neighbours, look out for lonely elderly folk, and make sure that you buy locally-produced (and preferably organic) produce. Depending on your skills, you may also be able to donate time/energy/products for use by others. If you are in a profession, you can work to the best of your ability. If you are a creative artist/writer/musician, you can produce material that inspires or encourages people. You can smile as you walk down the street, you can pick up litter, you can use cars as little as possible. There are many, many ways we can all contribute if we wish. ♠ As a member of your Community For those of us who work in community health and development, it's important to understand community what a community is, and the specific nature of the communities we work in. Anything we do in a community requires us to be familiar with its people, its issues, and its history. Carrying out an intervention or building a coalition are far more likely to be successful if they are informed by the culture of the community and an understanding of the relationships among individuals and groups within it. Taking the time and effort to understand your community well before embarking on a community effort will pay off in the long term. A good way to accomplish that is to create a community description -- a record of your exploration and findings...
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...Departments: As a resort, its blueprints of the interior and architecturehave almost same with hotel. The Front desk, Housekeeping, Engineering and security, Food and beverage, Marketing and sales departments are for the resort’s smooth operation. Front Desk The front office is sometimes referred to as the front desk. In a small, limited-service hotel, the front office may consist, physically, of only that area reserved for guest registration. In a larger property, the front office will consist of many staff members, each responsible for a portion of the office’s management or operation. The duties of Front office are concerning questions on arrivals, meeting times, rates, food and beverage services, directions, transportation services, or whereabouts of the management staff and guests. And it is responsibility for collecting the revenue charged to guests for their rooms, restaurant meals, telephone calls, and a host of other hotel services. When forecasting room demand, accommodating guests, and collecting monies for services rendered, the front office generates a large quantity of data. This is the role of the front office to collect, sort and present these data in way that assists in management decision making. Other roles and responsibilities: Provide friendly and professional customer service at the front desks of the residence halls. Answer phones and respond to inquiries of residents and the general public. Create and issue keys. Sign out games and equipment...
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...*PANIMULA* Akala ng marami, ang ‘housekeeping’ ay ginagawa at iniaaplay sa bahay lamang subalit ito ay mahalaga at may malaking epekto sa pagiging produktibo mo at ng iyong mga kasamahan sa trabaho o pangangalakal. Nakatutulong din ito sa paglago at sa kinikita ng iyong kumpanya o negosyo. Napananatili rin nito ang kaayusan at kagandahan ng ating kapaligiran upang makaakit ng mga kostumer at kliyente. Tandaan na ang kagandahan at kaayusan ng isang opisina o tindahan ang unang-unang makikita ng isang kostumer o kliyente bago pa man niya masubukan ang inyong produkto o serbisyo. Paano nga ba ang pagsasagawa ng ‘good housekeeping?’ Narito ang ilan sa mga paraan:Tingnan ang inyong kapaligiran. May mga bagay ba o mga kagamitang hindi na gaanong importante o hindi na kapaki-pakinabang at hindi na magandang tingnan dahil nakauubos ng mahalagang espasyo? Nakagugulo rin ang mga ito sa isip ng mga nagtatrabaho kaya maaari nang itapon. Tingnan kung paano nakaayos ang inyong mga gamit sa inyong opisina o maging sa inyong pabrika. Ang mga ito ba ay nakaayos nang tama? Sa isang simpleng negosyo kagaya ng sari-sari store, tama ba ang pagkakalagay ng inyong mga paninda? O baka naman naghalo ang mga sabon, mantika at diaper ng bata? Ayusin ang mga ito at planuhin kung saan ang tamang lugar na dapat paglagyan ng mga ito upang maging madali ang paghahanap, gayundin, madaling makita ng mga kostumer.Maglaan ng ilang minuto araw-araw para sa paglilinis upang hindi na gaanong dumami ang dumi...
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...and you can find the hotel in Brasov, a city situated on the central part of Romania. The hotel has 4 stars, and is regarded as one of the greatest hotels in the city, the type is one resort,because it is a seasonal hotel. The Hotel has 3 floors, with 150 rooms, and 5 elevators. This hotel is famous for its services that the hotel offers in the Housekeeping department. The following housekeeping areas in the hotel are: the front desk area, lobby area, game rooms, exercise area, management offices, and public restrooms.The duties in the hotel for the housekeeping department are room inspection,training for the entire staff, inventory control ( linens, cleaning supplies,furniture, ),housekeeping reports and in-house and out-house laundry. In each room, every maid has a 30 minutes for cleaning the room, and there are 3 shifts / day in which the maids has to clean the room. (every floor has at least 10 maids). The laundry in the hotel is one in-house, and one of the reasons why the hotel is dotated with a in-house laundry is that the GM provides greater control of where the inventory will be laundred. What housekeeping meaning? Housekeeping is the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a home. It is one of the many chores included in the term housework. Housecleaning includes activities such as disposing of rubbish, cleaning dirty surfaces, dusting and vacuuming. It may also involve some outdoor chores, such as removing leaves from rain gutters, washing windows and sweeping...
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...Assessment of the View that Conjugal Roles Have Become Equal Different sociologists have had different views to whether conjugal roles have become equal. Researchers have measured different aspects of equality/inequality in conjugal roles. Some have concentrated on the division of labour in the home: they have examined the allocation of responsibility for domestic work between husband and wife and the amount of time spent by spouses on particular tasks. Others have tried to measure the distribution of power within marriage. Willmott and Young, and Gillian Dunne are amongst those who have argued that conjugal roles are equal. However many sociologists such as Ann Oakley, Ferri and Smith, Duncombe and Marsden, and Edgel, who have carried out research into the area of conjugal roles, have found little evidence that couples share equal division of domestic tasks. Willmott and Young agree with the statement that conjugal roles have become equal. During the 1970’s they announced the arrival of the symmetrical family, a family in which the roles of husband and wife were similar. In the home the couple ‘shared their work and shared their time’. Husbands were seen to be increasingly helping with domestic chores, child rearing and decision making about family life. Willmott and Young found that 72% of husbands helped with these household tasks. They argued that the change from segregated to joint conjugal roles results mainly from the withdrawal...
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...Growing up in a typical African family life was a little different to what I’m living now with my husband here in the USA. As a child i remember my mother doing most of the house chores than my father. Since we had a housekeeper from morning to early evening hours from Monday to Friday she did most of the housekeeping chores. However my mother would always prepare breakfast and dinner for the family, according to her tribe it was her responsibility and as a wife and a mother we all expected her to do that. Over the weekends she would clean, wash cloths with her hands and prepare meals. My father would spend his time out with his friend or in the house drinking beer. As a grown up today I am in a egalitarian marriage, my husband and I share most of the house chores. If I cook then he will wash the dishes (we don’t use a dishwasher) or vise-versa. We usually do house cleaning together on Wednesday we would have light house cleaning and on Saturday we would have heavy house cleaning. I’m the one who cleans the toilet and the bathroom I don’t like it but I like clean toilets and bathrooms so I clean them twice in a day, in the morning before I take shower and in the evening right before I take my warm beautiful shower, my husband barely cleans the toilet. Our chore distribution isn’t based on gendered lines, we have a rule which goes ‘if its not in it’s normal state someone has to do something’ Said all that you can see that we are both responsible for our house, light now we...
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...Human Experience - Relationships Tammy Johnson, Donna Washington, and Anthony Butler ENG/125 August 30, 2011 Carla Clemmons Human Experience - Relationships Relationships are part of everyone’s life and they are what make people who they are. Relationships influence an individual’s way of thinking and the way the act. Relationships can also be difficult to maintain. Relationships are a way of connecting with people that are close to you and that you care about. Everyone needs or wants to be loved and cared about at some point in their life. Personally experiencing another can be interesting and an essential part of life. * The readings that give examples of the human experience of relationships are “A Doll’s House,” Henrik Isben, “Woman’s Work,” Julia Alvarez and “On Going Home,” Joan Didion. In the drama “A Doll’s House,” the relationship between a husband and wife is played out. This play demonstrates the conflict of a wife deceiving her husband. It also shows different ways a husband treats his wife. Throughout the play, Nora is referred to as her husband’s “little Skylark” (Isben, 1879). The title of the play symbolizes the way Nora is treated and how her husband thinks of her. She is thought of like a mindless doll that is living in her “doll house” The irony in this play is that while Nora’s husband thinks she does not have a mind of her own, she takes it upon herself to go out and take a loan out to get her family through a rough time. The time...
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...Use of Space & Layout The most fundamental planning for a hotel involves the guestrooms—not only do they account for the bulk of space within a hotel, but a large measure of the hotel experience is in the guestroom. Developing an efficient and effective design of these areas is critical for your initial development budget, but this is also a key to long-term guest satisfaction and operating efficiency. Planning guestrooms requires careful consideration of the activities that will happen within the room. It is important that you match the bedroom mix to the market and the marketing plan, as the type of bed configuration has a major impact on guest satisfaction. In our hotel guest rooms, a combination of carpet and wood would be appropriate, with tile floors specifically black marble tiles reserved for the bathroom. Rooms will be designed in such a way that spaces will feel far bigger than it actually is which will allow for comfort and at the same time provides a creative design for guests to enjoy. When designing a hotel, the hotel must balance functional, layout and aesthetics issues to develop a property that simultaneously meets the needs of the guests, the staff and the owner. Our property that will be heavily design oriented will include functional aspects carefully integrated to enhance, yet not dominate the space. The hotel will be designed in a way so as to inspire, ensure safety, promote efficiency, is cost effective and at the same time it helps to maintain...
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...Decision is very important and should not be taking lightly because decision could affect your entire life. When making a decision you should always wait before making a decision. Make sure that you think your decision through. Think about the pros and cons of your decision always make sure you think about what would happen if your decision goes wrong. Decision making can be regarded as the mental processes resulting in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios (Wikipedia). Every decision that someone make there is a process before getting to that final decision or final choice. When I make decision I have a process that I go through first. I set and think about what I want my outcome to be. I think about my opinions the choice that I have and which one would be better. I then think about the pros and cons which one out weight each other. I also think about my feeling in the decision will this decision take a toll on me mental and physical. Will this decision cause me to be stress out. Then, after I have thought about the possible outcome I make my decision on what I think the best outcome will be. In the text it describes the decision making process and give example of some possible decision one would have to make. The decision making process in the text is similar to mines. Its start out as identify the problem or opportunity. You have to recognize the problem to see the opportunity that you have. Next you have to gather information to see what...
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...Name: Affordable Housekeeping Services, LLC Mission statement “The mission of “Affordable Housekeeping services” is to make a dirty house into a clean home. We will bring our friendly, warm people to clean your house as quickly and efficiently as possible Here is a rewrite of your mission statement for your consideration. I think the statement should be a single sentence that conveys to the customers the aspects of our business that are most meaningful to them. Our mission is to have our friendly, warm and dedicated staff transform a dirty house into a clean, healthy home - quickly, efficiently and affordably. "To provide superior housecleaning services that reflects our steadfast commitment to quality, affordability and efficiency. Housekeeping Services" is to transform your everyday mess into a tightly and clean leaving area. We Bring in our friendly trained specialized personnel who work quickly and efficiently to get the job done. * “Please use different word for the underlined word” Place: Affordable Housekeeping Services, LLC will have its main place of business at the homes and businesses of our customers where we will be cleaning. We will rent storage space for all of our supplies and equipment. Our customers will be able to request our services through our answering service, as well as online through our website or via E-mail. The manager and assistant manager of the business will carry around a business cell phone with Internet access (for monitoring...
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...People have often debated whether technology is good or bad. Many people believe that technology can only cause harm to their lives and to the society, while many others strongly defend the technologies which have made their lives much more leisurely and enriching than it could have been with the absence of technology. In my opinion, both of these views are correct to an extent, but I also believe that what should be examined is not whether technology in its self is good or bad, but rather how we decide use it. Household appliances have greatly evolved in the last century. Refrigerators, gas and electric ovens, microwaves, vacuums, dishwashers....the list goes on and on. All these things have made housework much easier than it would have been about 100 years ago. This results with both positive and negative effects. It has given us easier ways to get jobs done, leaving more time for other things, but the bad part of this is what is chosen to do in this extra time. In many cases, this extra time is spent doing leisurely things, which might make us happier, but also has an effect on our health. Lately we have become aware of the dangers of heart disease and the health benefits of exercise. We would have gotten most of this necessary exercise 100 years ago just from doing our daily chores but now aren t getting enough because we don t have to work as hard to do those same chores. This can be blamed on technology, but again, in fact it is our own fault because we chose to use the...
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...An Assessment of a Nontraditional Family Abstract This is an assessment of a three-member nuclear family. All members were present at time of interview and were open and willing to answer all questions or give feedback. The family consists of Ken 35 years old, Jessica (divorced) 31 years old and Jalen 12 years old. Jessica married Jalen’s father at the age of 19 when she became pregnant and were then divorced a year later. Jessica’s described her former husband as abusive and as having a “bad temper”. Ken is Jessica’s boyfriend of 10 years. They have lived together for 9 of those years in Ken’s house. Jessica is divorced and has one child, Jalen. Ken has been Jalen’s sole father figure for 6 of the 10 years he has been with Jessica. Jalen’s father moved to Florida about 6 years ago and has visited one time. He pays child support when he is employed and calls regularly. When asked about her relationship with Jalen’s father in the past, Jessica answered with a quick reply of, “not good”. This paper will explore the dynamics and functioning of this family. An Assessment of Nontraditional Family The nuclear family consists of two people, not necessarily married and their children (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2009). Ken does not have any children of his own, but considers Jalen to be his son. He is involved in decision-making and discipline with Jalen. Having her son at the age of 19 was very difficult for Jessica to adjust to. She had not graduated high school and made...
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