Introduction Introduction to the Regency Grand Hotel the Hotel is among the five star hotels in Bangkok, established by local investors. The ownership of the hotel was later transferred to the American Hotel Chain. John Becker a man with a good history in organisational management became the General Manager. Becker introduced an empowerment strategy as an aspect that would increase employee motivation and satisfaction. The practice reduced the bureaucratic governance that was embedded in the past
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The Regency Hotel Introduction: The Regency Grand was Thai owned and operated. It was a profitable and successful company during it 15 year existence with very high morale within the company. Employee’s worked according to management’s instructions. Employees were not allowed to be innovated and creative. All decisions were at management level. When Regency was bought out by a US Hotel chain, the general manager decided to retire early. The American based company then appointed John Becker
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This hotel is based in Bangkok and was established by local investors 15 years ago and was operated by Thai general manager since that time. It had 700 employees that time and use to provide good employee benefits, above market rate salaries and job security and bonuses regardless of the hotel performance during that year. This hotel was sold to an American large chain of hotel who wanted to expand its operation in Thailand. The general manger decided to take an early retirement since the acquisition
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MGMT 20124: Preparing a Report for a Case Study In addition to the correct format of your report there are content issues you need to consider. It is useful to read through the case a couple of times and get a feel as to what you will need to find before you go searching for articles. This is always problematic, but you do need to summarise the articles for support in your report, using the content, findings and conclusions. Therefore it is important that the articles are used in the detailed
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have benefited many organizations through managing and taking care especially enhancing employee commitment and reducing employee turnover. As the case of the Regency Grand Hotel, the new management introduced the empowerment practice while at the same time expecting the employees to go beyond guidelines and standards to consider guest needs on a case to case basis (McShane & Travaglione 2007). Employees’ empowerment is needed in organization in order to expect employees to be in position to make quick
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1 Paper: Assignment Style: Oxrford Pages: 7 Sources: 6 Level: Graduate Case Study – The Regency Grand Hotel [Writer Name] [Institute Name] 2 Case Study – The Regency Grand Hotel Summary of the Information The Regency Grand was Thai owned and operated. Its performance was very good. It was a profitable and successful company during its 15 year existence with very high morale within the company. Employee’s worked according to management’s instructions. Employees were not allowed
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The Regency Grand Hotel Case Study: A Managerial and Socio-cultural Approach ------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Executive Summary This analysis reviews the case study of The Regency Grand Hotel following a recent change in the upper management and implementation of a new organisational strategy which has led to the performance deterioration and the increase in customer
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Introduction to the Regency Grand Hotel: Introduction to the Regency Grand Hotel The Hotel is among the five star hotels in Bangkok, established by local investors. The ownership of the hotel was later transferred to the American Hotel Chain. John Becker a man with a good history in organizational management became the General Manager. Becker introduced an empowerment strategy as an aspect that would increase employee motivation and satisfaction. The practice reduced the bureaucratic governance
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Regency Grand Hotel Case The Regency Grand hotel was established by the local consortium of investors 15 years ago, and was operated well by Thai general manager since that time. It had 700 employees in the organization and used to provide creditable employee benefits, such as above market rate salaries, job securities and bonuses regardless of the hotel performance during the year. Based on those advantages, The Regency Grand hotel became one of the most prestigious hotels in Bangkok. The hotel
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Introduction “Introducing the practice of empowerment so as to replicate the successes that John Becker had achieved back home (McShane & Sheen, 2012)” did not occur as intended with the Regency Grand Hotel. The series of events that occurred thereafter led to deterioration and poor overall performance (McShane & Sheen, 2012). Incorrect implementation of empowerment is clearly the underlying cause for the hotel’s recent performance, which is explained by the Expectancy Theory of motivation
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