This paper examines hospitality employers’ perspectives of sustainable development (SD) and the implications for hospitality education, particularly graduate employability. An exploratory approach is used in this research where semi-structured interviews were conducted with employers of hospitality graduates. The results established that respondents had mixed understandings of the meaning and relevance of SD. These employers are, however, gradually recognising the value of sustainability for their business. Though it is not currently a priority in terms of a critical employability skill specifically for the hotel sector, related industries seem more mindful of the implications of sustainability credentials. Thus, hospitality educators need to take appropriate actions in subject-specific areas where SD is critical to employment opportunities, creating more industry-ready graduates who are also globally aware citizens. 相似文献
Mystery shopping are a method of quality management that is utilized often in a variety of businesses. A holistic definition of a mystery shopper is, however, unclear. Literature relating to mystery shoppers was reviewed and analyzed through content analysis, to develop criteria which can be used to define a mystery shopper. The various traits identified were divided into personal traits, training elements, company considerations. The results of the paper provide a thorough analysis of the various traits that constitute a mystery shopper. 相似文献
Management Review Quarterly - In the last years, scholarly attention was on a steady rise leading to a significant increase in the number of papers addressing different technological and... 相似文献
Verifiability of an announced exchange rate regime becomes important in the context of credibility and transparency of a regime. These latter ideas become especially significant in the context of the currently reigning hypothesis of the missing middle, which postulates that exchange rate regimes intermediate to the corner regimes of ‘free floating’ and ‘firm fixing’ are increasingly becoming nonviable in a world of greater international capital mobility as these intermediate regimes are more difficult to verify. This paper attempts to verify India’s exchange rate regime in the so-called basket arrangement period. Using auxiliary information about the regime, it estimates the confidential Indian basket and shows that the behaviour of India’s exchange rate was not exactly as per the announced regime.
In this paper, the energy–GDP relationship (in per capita terms) is analysed for a sample of 16 countries, over the time period 1950–51 to 1984–85. Co-integration theory is first used to test whether a long-run equilibrium relation exists between the two variables. After co-integration has been established, causality measures are constructed to quantify various types of feedback between energy and GDP for each country. It is then examined whether the causality measures are longitudinally related to certain basic economic indicators of the countries in the sample. 相似文献