...Introduction This paper will analyze methods of ensuring Marriott’s Human Resources (HR) strategy aligns with the company’s business strategy and the job positions and responsibilities of the HR department. The paper will then address personal preferences and reasoning. Finally, the paper will discuss methods of improving Marriott’s competitive advantage and three ways they can increase diversity. Ensuring HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy One way a company can ensure the HR strategy is in alignment with the business strategy is to organize the HR department to be a strategic entity. This would entail every aspect of HR – hiring, training, development, compensation, performance, etc. - being strategically focused in alignment with the business strategy of the organization. It will take effort and a realization that HR is more than administrative support. The definitive goal is for HR to support an organization through the management of human capital, which is the major subset of the broader organization’s strategy (Righeimer, n.d.). A more specific way to ensure the strategies are in alignment is to incorporate the company’s strategy into performance management. Goals are developed for personnel which incorporate the specific tasks necessary for each area to successfully complete in support of the vision. This assists in the accountability of employees in support of the business strategy and allows employees to see how they personally and...
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...Introduction Marriott International, Inc. is a global leading hospitality company with more than 4,000 properties, and more than 690,000 rooms in 77 countries. Marriott operates franchises, and licenses hotels and timeshare properties worldwide. It also licenses the operation, development, marketing, sale, and management of vacation ownership and related products. Marriott was founded in 1927 by J. Willard Marriot and Alice Marriott in 1927 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts is Marriott International’s luxury brand that consists of 60 exceptional properties in gateway cities and distinctive resort locations around the world. JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts are expanding into gateway cities and established resort destinations as well as emerging luxury markets throughout the world. JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts compete with other fine luxury hotel brands such as Fairmont, Park Hyatt, Shangri-La and Conrad and high-end independent properties. Marriott International reported revenues of nearly $13 billion in fiscal year 2013. It has been committed to guest satisfaction, and operates and franchises hotels under 18 brands for more than 80 years. There are three roles within the Marriott “family” culture which are associates (employees), customers and its communities. “Take care of your employees and they’ll take care of the guests” was the philosophy of Marriott’s founder. “Spirit to serve the customers” is the core value of...
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...On August 13, 2014 at 9:54 pm, Pacific Business News (PBN) announced the closure of JW Marriott Ihilani Resort and Spa at Ko ʻOlina Resort. Also in this article, the Marriot’s management contract ends on December 31, 2014. There have been speculations that Four Seasons hotel bought the JW Marriot Ihilani Resort, but is not yet confirmed. Because of this proclamation that the JW Marriot Ihilani will be closing, there will be many changes in the organization in all levels of positions. Currently, there are 500 employees that are non-union members that who are affected from this closure. Due to this closure, this will result in employee layoffs, positive or negative employee morale and the struggle of finding new jobs for the employees. The way a company manages this change and assist employees through the transition will make a big impact in the organization as a whole. The change that is happening within Ihilani due to this closure is similar to what other organizations go through as well. Personally, I’ve experienced having to go through the changes in the organization when I used to work for a sushi restaurant called “Sushi Go” as a hostess/waitress. A month before it was announced that the company was closing, there were a lot of changes happening in the organization. There was a rumor among employees that the restaurant was in the verge of closing, but I thought it was a false hoax. However, once we started experiencing major changes, I felt that the rumor was valid. ...
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...training program that prepares students with significant barriers for a full-time career in the culinary and hospitality industry. Thanks to the generosity of our Bridges To Success volunteer mentors and donors, Ludovic stayed on track with KFG to learn commercial kitchen skills, including how to work with kitchen knives, recipe comprehension, as well as food safety and sanitation protocol. While learning these important skills, he worked to produce meals for senior centers and the homeless and improved his employment readiness with training in punctuality, communication, and stress management. At the 12th week of the program, students are placed in culinary arts internships to learn how to be a great chef and successful employee. Ludovic was paired with Draft Republic while others were paired at Bracero Cocina, Marriott Resort Coronado Island, Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, Hilton San Diego, and the Sweetwater School District. Ludovic proudly graduated from KFG on July 21, 2016 and was immediately requested interview for a position at Draft Republic. The now confident, capable, and connected Ludovic was hired on the spot and started working as a line chef that same day! Bridges To Success helped make all of it possible. Ludovic and his pursuit of self-sufficiency didn’t end with his employment in the kitchen. Due to long time Bridges To Success collaborator Maggie Kennedy and her relationship with JAAM, an electric company in Chula Vista, Ludovic was referred...
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...every night). I got into a small liberal arts college, who took my disney internship hours and turned them into college credit, and was lucky enough to get offered a small stipend if I worked on campus somewhere- the theater needed people who could sew. Anita twirled in my head; I said yes. For four years, I was lucky enough to get paid to turn people into someone else. I got to help tomboys become queens, I helped shy quiet men turn into cool, confident FBI agents. I found that clothing could change you, that it could make you whatever you wanted. I got to read plays with layers on layers of complex ideas, learned that nothing is what it seems, learned how to tell stories through clothing. But the voice in the back of my head told me that while all this was fun, it wasn’t going to get me anywhere, and I listened to it. I graduated with a BA in Organizational Communication- I don’t regret that part. I love knowing how we speak to each other, knowing how best to talk to different people, I find that it makes my professional life a lot easier when I understand how people think. But I left college and immediately got a desk job, I didn’t even bother to try and look for a theater job. And I semi-happily event managed for about a year until I just couldn’t take it anymore. And now? Now I’m a little broke all the time, but I eat more than ramen every day. I love my job as a wardrobe supervisor at Marriott Theater, and I’m willing to take a big gamble. I’m ready to go back to school...
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...DC General Introduction: The Charles E. Smith Center is located in the George Washington University, and has served as the home of the GWU department of athletics and recreation for more than 30 years. It was founded in 1821, room for 4338 seats, and the enrollment of Smith Center is 24,531 and the NCAA Division 1 is its affiliation. The purpose of the smith center is hold variety of GW’s 27 intercollegiate varsity sports. In there, there are several different venues processing different competitions or practices, like women’s and man’s basketball, volleyball and gymnastics. Other than holding sports events, the Smith Center also hosts some major events, like freshman convocation, concerts, commencement ceremonies and fall career and internship fair. Moreover, the Smith Center is also available to hold smaller scale events in two clubrooms: the colonials club and champions club. It is convenient to get the Smith Center, no matter take metro or drive a car by yourself. The Foggy Bottom metro station is so closing to the Smith Center that only take 5 minutes walk to get there. Smith Center provides three different parking areas, van parking, bus parking and visitor parking, but visitors should be attention about there is no parking directly adjacent to the Smith Center, and it highly recommends that bus drivers park the bus in the designated bus spots located at Virginia Ave and Constitution Ave NW (roughly seven blocks away). If visitors come to the Smith Center by their own...
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...STAGE IPEX ETE 2010 International College Program Walt Disney World DATE DE DEROULEMENT DU STAGE: Du 01/06/2010 au 20/08/2010 LANGUE DE REDACTION : Anglais PAYS : Etats-Unis d’Amérique CONFIDENTIEL oui non 1.0 Introduction Walt Elias Disney once said: “You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world… But it requires people to make the dream a reality”. As soon as I heard this quote during my tradition class, I tried to keep it in mind during my whole program without even imagining that I will probably remember it for the rest of my life. As part of our program at INSEEC Bordeaux, we needed to find a foreign company to work for during the summer break in order to live a new experience and arouse our pretty small resume. We were asked to learn both human and professional skills during this period. 1.1 What is the Walt Disney World International College Program? The international College Program is a summer work program based on the availability of foreign college students due to their summer vacations. This program last three months and is reserved for non-American students enrolled in a three to four year college program. They are required to work as a normal employee for the whole summer after a couple of weeks of training. Several tasks are available during the program, students are asked to choose what they want to do at the second interview in Paris. (For the French ICP) Among the jobs available: ...
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...Human Resource Practices In Hotel Industry Visit hrmba.blogspot.com allmbastuff.blogspot.com for more project reports, notes, presentations etc. INTRODUCTION TO HOTEL INDUSTRY One of the fastest growing sectors of the economy of our time is the hotel industry. The hotel industry alone is a multi-billion dollar and growing enterprise. It is exciting, never boring and offer unlimited opportunities. The hotel industry is diverse enough for people to work in different areas of interest and still be employed within the hotel industry. This trend is not just in India, but also globally. Modern hotels provide refined services to their guests. The customers or guests are always right. This principle necessitated application of management principles in the hotel industry and the hotel professionals realized the instrumentality of marketing principles in managing the hotel industry. The concept of total quality management is found getting an important place in the marketing management of hotels. The emerging positive trend in the tourism industry indicates that hotel industry is like a reservoir from where the foreign exchange flows. This naturally draws our attention on HOTEL MANAGEMENT. Like other industries, the hotel industry also needs to explore avenues for innovation, so that a fair blending of core and peripheral services is 1 Human Resource Practices In Hotel Industry made possible. It is not to be forgotten that the leading hotel companies of the ...
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...COVER ARTICLE PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS Acute Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Part I. Rate and Rhythm Control DANA E. KING, M.D., LORI M. DICKERSON, PHARM.D., and JONATHAN L. SACK, M.D. Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina Atrial fibrillation is the arrhythmia most commonly encountered in family practice. Serious complications can include congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction, and thromboembolism. Initial treatment is directed at controlling the ventricular rate, most often with a calcium channel blocker, a beta blocker, or digoxin. Medical or electrical cardioversion to restore sinus rhythm is the next step in patients who remain in atrial fibrillation. Heparin should be administered to hospitalized patients undergoing medical or electrical cardioversion. Anticoagulation with warfarin should be used for three weeks before elective cardioversion and continued for four weeks after cardioversion. The recommendations provided in this two-part article are consistent with guidelines published by the American Heart Association and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (Am Fam Physician 2002;66:249-56. Copyright© 2002 American Academy of Family Physicians.) I Members of various family practice departments develop articles for “Practical Therapeutics.” This article is one in a series coordinated by the Department of Family Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. Guest editor of the series is ...
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...Executive Summary Men and women are entering the labor force in equal numbers but the majority of top management positions still belong to men. More women than ever are entering the labor force but the majority of top management positions in almost all countries are primarily held by men. Female managers tend to be concentrated in lower management positions and hold less authority than men. This suggests that something beyond just sex differences in career patterns must be at work to account for the huge difference in the number of men versus women in top management positions. Although women as a whole may place less emphasis on career success than men, there are a considerable amount of women who strive for top management positions and are unable to attain them. In a recent study almost three-fourths of women and two-thirds of men believe that an invisible barrier (a glass ceiling) prevents women from attaining top management positions. In this report we have tried to find out the barriers causing women advancement in organizational top levels referred to as “Glass Ceiling.” We have conducted our research among some of the top level organizations which are United International University (UIU), MERCANTILE BANK Limited (MBL), Islamic Bank Limited (IBL), and Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTBL). Without their support we couldn’t have completed this report. Here we have conducted research about some of the factors which correspondents have identified as the major factors. The...
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...International American University Department of Business The University Catalog and Student Handbook supplement this syllabus and are available through IAU Online as a digital soft copy. Please make sure that you review the University Catalog and Student Handbook so that you can be successful in this course. 4201 Wilshire Blvd., Suite #610 ♦ Los Angeles, CA 90010, CA, U.S.A. ♦ T: (323) 938-4428 ♦ F: (323) 938-4-4429 ♦ E: www.iau.la MKT 500C Marketing Management Syllabus Instructor Name: Instructor Phone: Instructor Email: Campus / Room: Mode: COURSE DETAILS Christopher Lloyd, MBA (310) 594-1023 clloyd@iau.la Main Campus – B Hybrid Term/Year: Days: Time: Start: End: Fall S2, 2015 Wednesdays 6:00pm - 10:00pm October 26, 2015 December 18, 2015 Christopher Lloyd earned his MBA with a concentration in Information Systems from California State University Long Beach in 2012. Professor Lloyd teaches as an adjunct professor for courses in management, marketing, business, information systems management, and computer information systems for undergraduate and graduate level courses. His responsibilities include teaching and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, and attending conferences and symposiums addressing strategic management, digital marketing, and search engine optimization. Professor Lloyd's "learning through application" approach earns him high praise from his students. His genuine interest in their career advancement ...
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...Factors considered by incoming college students in pursuing a career in the hospitality industry CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Our country suffers from crisis such as socioeconomic crisis, political crisis, and as well as financial crisis which is greatly affected by global economic crisis. Despite of this entire crisis Filipinos are imaginative, creative and courageous to surpass the obstacles in everyday life. Even though there are some companies affected by these crisis which they are force to decrease their employees called as recession and frankly my father is involved on this what we called recession some ;of them have job openings that offer new career opportunities to graduated college students. These job opening also offers a new challenge into their life a great responsibility lies to his hand that someday will helps his family to strive to achieve wealthiest that his acquired knowledge and skills when he engage into a job. And acted as one of the reinforcements in the industry that would further improved the depleting economy of the country. All of these come first from wishes and aspirations that arise during childhood years that someday he or she become a chef in a five star hotel, a doctor, an architect, a teacher, a policeman or an attorney to help those who seek needs, services and to help their family to ascend the poverty. According to Ginzberg and his associates during the fantasy period play gradually becomes work-oriented and reflects initial preferences...
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...Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy Helene P. Foley Barnard College, Columbia University “Leave it to a playwright who has been dead for 2,400 years to jolt Broadway out of its dramatic doldrums” begins a recent New York Times review (December 4, 1998) of a British Electra by Sophocles starring Zoe Wanamaker and Claire Bloom. This fall the Times has repeatedly remarked on the “deluge” of Greek tragedy in the 1998-99 theater season: the National Theater of Greece’s Medea, Joanne Akalaitis’ The Iphigeneia Cycle (a double bill that combines Euripides’ two Iphigeneia plays), a revival of Andrei Serban’s famous Fragments of a Greek Trilogy, and a four-and-a-half-hour adaptation of the Oedipus Rex were announced at the start of the season. Off-off Broadway versions will inevitably follow. The Brooklyn Academy of Music even hosted a dance/theatre piece based on the Eleusinian Mysteries. 1 The Classic Stage Company, an off-Broadway theater group devoted to performance and adaptation of Western classics, currently receives more scripts that re-work Greek tragedy than any other category of drama. 2 From a global perspective, New York is simply reflecting a trend set by important modern playwrights and directors worldwide. Greek drama now occupies a regular place in the London theater season. In the past twenty years, acclaimed productions have been mounted not only in Europe but also in Japan, India, and Africa. Translations are even beginning to proliferate in China, occasionally...
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...YEAR 2010-2011 Late Shri Alkesh Dinesh Mody The Institute was co-founded by Shri. Dineshbhai Mody in loving memory of his beloved son Late Shri Alkeshbhai D. Mody, who was a dynamic stockbroker and a noble soul. The logo of our institute “VISION, ERUDITION, FAITH and CHARACTER” negates INJUSTICE (ANANYA), IMMORTALITY (ANNETI) and GREED (PARIGRAHA) in every domain of life. The Institute was set up in response to fulfill the need of financial literacy in the global business arena. The MMS program was introduced in 2002-2003. Sr No 1 2 Particulars About Us Vice Chancellor‟s Message Page No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Chairman‟s Message Director‟s Message The Core Faculties The Visiting Faculties Courses Offered Course Curriculum Infrastructure 3 4 5 6 9 10 13 10 11 ADMI Placement Activity Student‟s Profile 14 16 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Achievements ZEST – The Fest International Seminar Industry Interactions Guest Lecturers Research Consultancy and Training Areas of Consultancy 36 38 39 40 43 44 45 19 20 Corporate Associations ADMI Placement Process 46 47 Alkesh Dinesh Mody Institute for Financial and Management Studies,(ADMI),the management institute of the University of Mumbai, resides in the heart of its very own campus in Santacruz(Vidyanagari). The building showcases itself in the shape of an octagon, with fully air-conditioned rooms aided with latest audiovisual amenities like LCD projectors, OHP.This makes the...
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...Introduction to Hospitality Industry UNIT 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 Meaning and definition Historical evolution and development Hospitality as an Industry 1.1 Introduction Meaning and definition Tourism is not just about the facilities and attractions provided for visitors. It is about people and especially about the relationship between the customer and the individual providing service. Everybody employed in tourism needs to have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide the standard of product and service that customers expect. Knowing about the tourism industry, its component parts and especially where you fit in is an important starting point to a successful career in tourism. What Is Tourism? Tourism may be described as the activities of tourists and those who cater for them. It is a highly diversified business with many component parts ranging from airlines to hotels. Tourism is concerned with providing: Travel and transport facilities Accommodation Food and drink Entertainment/recreation Information and assistance Souvenirs Above all, tourism is a hospitality industry providing a service to visitors in a warm and welcoming way. ICHM Page 1 Introduction to Hospitality Industry Who Are Tourists? Tourists are people who for a variety of reasons travel to destinations, where they stay at least one night. Excursionists are also visitors that do not make an over-night stop, such as daytrippers or people on cruises. There are several basic types of tourists: ...
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