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Running Head: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY 2
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY 2
Leadership and Management in Hospitality Industry
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Introduction
Promotion of innovation and learning in a hospitality organization, integration of leadership, and management aspects should get effectively executed. However, the two essential elements in the hospitality industry should not be a must that they are in equilibrium. Proper leadership management in an organization helps in creating working teams. A significant distinction exists between the administration and administrative leadership. A manager in a hotel, for instance, in help from other departmental managers within the organization, remains to be the integral center from which performance teams originate. The manager, through learning, promotes job improvements challenging the employees to become innovative to enhance security solutions to the problems encountered by the given hospitality organization.
For management to be effective must incorporate the aspect of an appropriate leadership style. On the same note, a leader needs to possess the potential of controlling Ego since the primary role of a manager is to promote innovation. Therefore, considering this, the manager becomes the mirror whom the junior workers enumerate. However, some managers do not possess the security element in themselves. A manager of this type performs better while using the managerial leadership style called command and control. Some are selfish to the extent of not executing the empowerment roles useful to their workers, and by so doing, they deviate from their primary purpose. Such leaders do not readily share their leadership skills. The management strategies on the other side, such as evaluation, coordination, budget formulation, among others, also remains essential as far as realization of hospitality organization goals are concerned (Net, 2020).
When executed hand in hand with leadership skills, management strategies, as mentioned, forms vital organizational tools to promote innovation. Also, in small daily organization activities, management strategies get used in making short-term decisions. Crafting an art in management becomes vital to balance the priorities in the present and the future organizational vision. Therefore, this forms the distinction in leadership and management in as much as they get used together. The later subsections in this context provide critiques on articles about leadership and management as separate entities.
Article 1: International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
Abstract
The topic discussed in this article is about research in strategic management in the hospitality industry. The author in the report identifies and considers research as an essential tool to enhance governance in the hospitality industry. The literature in which this article is built on focus the view of strategies of planning, competition. Also, they focus on competitive advantage development in the hospitality industry. Sustainable performance in the hospitality industry incorporates strategies that propose organizations to utilize environmental forces. Conceptualization and empirical evidence form the essential approach with which research should get carried out to enhance management. The author outlines competing and competitive advantage development should determine the type of research to get carried out.
The article critiques
Conceptualization and empirical evidence research strategies employed in the hospitality industry are primarily models that are approach- related. However, according to the author, the procedure got developed from other sectors (Koseoglu, Law, & Dogan, 2018. Therefore, it means the given plans get in the hospitality industry without conducting a thorough empirical investigation realistic with the needs of the hospitality industry. This forms a challenge source and errors in the findings of the research when applied to the hospitality industry. Using research strategies that are not in line with the actual needs of a problem create faults and ineffective problem solution of the concerned issues. The plans outlined by the author are not appropriate to get used in the hospitality industry researches as they should get developed through consideration of the actual problems in the industry. In recent times, the strategy-oriented type of research that focuses much on the organizational methods of competition should get used. A good example is a competitive method in the hospitality industry developed in 1994 by Murphy. And in 1996 by Jogaratnam for restaurants.
Further research with the identification of these competitive methods has led to the development of more classification methods of research analysis. However, the results of the study done with the suggested methodologies discussed in this article were not able to establish the relationship that existed between the competitive techniques and the firm performance. Rigorous testing, as required for research findings, was never conducted in the research plans outlined by the author. It makes the study unsuccessful in the establishment of the critical relationship that exists between the competitive methods and firm performance. To enhance organizational hospitality performance calls for a thorough understanding of the practical completion methods needed to be employed to make the objectives real. Lack of appropriate hospitality-oriented research plans in the article makes the study a little relevant to the hospitality industry trends and general performance.
Article 2: Keys-to-Successful-Hospitality-Leadership
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This article outlines five keys to successful hospitality leadership by Sarah Andersen. The author came up with this article after completing a hospitality leadership course and got a chance to reflect on the previous class teachings about leadership in hospitality. Based on class teachings, the author explains the earlier explored levels of leadership. Understanding the mission, vision as well as values an organization has forms essential leadership skills by a manager. Administration refers to the ability to translate vision into reality. Guidance gets developed by first realizing and understanding the goal to make others follow them. Implementation of company goals forms the bottom line of its success as well. A company has a leadership level through which its actions and beliefs get manifested.
The article critiques
Basing on balancing accountability and autonomy, different leadership styles in various industries revolve around formulated core values. These values, in turn, build leadership integrity and transparency. People working in the company form the core values as outlined by the author, and which encourages flexibility and conducive environments for them to do their jobs effectively. A leadership culture that creates empowerment and confidence in the company associates makes them become leaders and promotes self-determination. The article discusses a leadership strategy by which a junior worker gets mentored and developed a leader in the same organization. However, the approach may not be fully active and positive. It may get affected by monotony and lack of developmental ideas. When a company employee gets promoted to be a leader, it may face a challenge of lack of respect from the employees who take time to develop the transition because they once worked in the same. Level. Also, the newly put into place leader crested in the equal company may not have new leadership ideologies. Hence a significant leadership weakness existed earlier may still prevail because the leader lacks new leadership solutions, which makes a company stagnate in terms of performance.
Accordingly, when a company intends to build and employ leaders developed from the junior staff should first create an external leadership training session to the chosen employee (Andersen, 2018). The strategy helps bring new and innovative leadership skills from outside. Modeling by example, as another leadership aspect discussed in this article, means an organization leader should educate others on the primary purpose of the organization as well as the reason the organization matters. However, this aspect of leadership has challenges as some leaders may not be able to become role models to the people they lead. Hence a company instead ought to have in place a clear outline of leadership guidelines and responsibilities. At any given time, a leader in the concerned organization should only operate within the stipulated guidelines and rule out the aspect of role model. The strategy would also help to build professionalism and understanding the roles of a leader.
Article 3: Thesis by Harbulakova Lucia For Bachelor Degree in 2018
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This article is a thesis about what makes an exceptional leader in organizational hospitality done by Lucia. The author in the report aims to bring an understanding of the attributes that make an excellent leader in the hospitality industry. As well as the influence of gender has in the process of making a leader. Indeed, the hospitality industry gets dominated by the female gender who get believed to make excellent servants and but not leaders. It prompts the author to carry out research to answer a question on the view of stereotypical descriptions and the leadership aspect in the hospitality industry. Interviews get used as the methodology in this research where the results get analyzed.
The Article critiques
By definition, leadership gets considered to undergo a constant evolution hence challenging to have a standard definition. The complex nature of leadership gives researchers a challenge in practical carrying out of scientific studies as well as the leadership of popular literature. Significantly, this problem cuts across the whole leadership aspect, even in practice. Lack of standard definitions on what leadership possesses a challenge in the development of new leadership ideas based on researches and literature review. The author outlines in the findings of the study that, indeed, males get associated with leadership in the hospitality industry more compared to the female gender. However, the female gender dominates the hospitality industry but do not get a chance to exercise their leadership skills (Harbuláková, 2018). As stated earlier by the author, the literature review does not give a sufficient definition and an understanding of leadership. This affects researches related to leadership topics as both the researcher and the correspondent may not have a thorough insight into what leadership means. The questions asked in the research interviews hence may not have meaningful answers about hospitality from the correspondents interviewed. This aspect also makes the leadership research done by the author in this article to have areas of weaknesses. Suggestively leadership-oriented investigations should hence use other methodologies that are quantitative and deviate away from using interviews. Other research methodologies may help in developing more accurate findings relating to the leadership research problems.
References
Andersen, S. (2018). https://www.bu.edu/bhr/files/2018/02/5-Keys-to-Successful-Hospitality-Leadership
Harbuláková, L. (2018). https://www.modul.ac.at/uploads/files/Theses/Bachelor/Undergrad_2018/Thesis__1511022_HARBULAKOVA__Lucia
Koseoglu, M. A., Law, R., & Dogan, I. C. (2018). Exploring the social structure of strategic management research with a hospitality industry focus. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management. doi:10.1108/ijchm-11-2017-0764
Net, H. (2020, February 1). The new paradigm for leadership and management in hospitality: the humble and self-confident Boss. https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4059690.html