hospitality workplace
Key Steps to Promoting Mental Serenity in the Hospitality Workplace
Dr Stefano Borzillo | April 27, 2023
By Dr. Stefano Borzillo, Dr. Lohyd Terrier, Nicolas Quoëx An ongoing study based on qualitative interviews with 25 EHL students in their final year of bachelor's studies (i.e., Gen Z) - each with at least one year of practical experience in the hospitality industry - reveals a perceived culture of workplace incivility within the hotel industry. Workplace incivility refers to “low-intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous intent to harm the target, in violation of workplace norms for mutual respect." "Uncivil behaviors are characteristically rude and discourteous, displaying a lack of regard for others” (Anderson & Pearson, 1999)...
A Glass Ceiling to Shatter
PolyU’s School of Hotel and Tourism Management | October 22, 2020
Efforts to shatter the “glass ceiling” and promote women’s equality in the hospitality and tourism workplace must start in universities, according to Professor Basak Denizci Guillet, Ph.D. graduate Dr Anna Pavesi, Professor Cathy Hsu and Dr Karin Weber of the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The researchers note that statistics paint a bleak picture of women’s involvement at the upper levels of the hospitality and tourism industry, both in Hong Kong and worldwide. Although progress is being made in closing the gender gap, social and institutional barriers continue to prevent talent...