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Supervision in the Hospitality Industry [Hardcover]

Jack E. Miller (Author), John R. Walker (Author), Karen E. Drummond (Author)
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0471396893 978-0471396895 September 10, 2002 4
* Covers all areas related to managing employees in foodservice and hotel operations, from communication, recruitment, and training to performance evaluation, discipline issues, and delegation.
* Each chapter features new, up-to-date material.
* Expanded coverage of hospitality organizations through case studies and hotel industry examples.

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Guidelines to becoming a winning manager in the foodservice and hotel industries

Successful managers effectively use theory, practice, and experience to lead their staffs. Supervision in the Hospitality Industry provides comprehensive coverage of the principles, theories, human relations techniques, and decision-making skills that are required to manage a workforce to profitable results. Along with updated material in each chapter and a variety of training activities for real-world simulation, this Fourth Edition is the complete guide to managing in the hospitality industry.

It takes a lot of savvy to manage a thriving hospitality business. Managers must satisfy obligations to owners, customers, and employees, while maintaining a positive work climate, developing job expectations, disciplining marginal employees, and addressing workplace diversity. Methods for achieving these goals as well as for communicating effectively, planning, organizing, and maintaining a management point of view are reinforced through quizzes, exercises, self-assessments, simulations, case studies, role-playing, and journal writing.

Supervision in the Hospitality Industry, Fourth Edition is the complete guide for students in culinary and hospitality programs, as well as foodservice professionals and chefs.

About the Author

The late JACK E. MILLER collaborated on several books in hospitality management, including Menu: Pricing and Strategy and Food and Beverage Cost Control, Second Edition, both from Wiley.

JOHN R. WALKER, DBA, FMP, is the Ray Marshall Professor and Director of the Hotel, Restaurant, and Tourism Management Programs at Alliant International University in San Diego, California.

KAREN EICH DRUMMOND, EdD, RD, FADA, FMP, is a foodservice and nutrition consultant and writer. She has authored or coauthored numerous books, including Nutrition for Foodservice and Culinary Professionals (Wiley).

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (September 10, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471396893
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471396895
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,071,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening!!, October 10, 2002
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You can be the most organized person in the world and you will still run into difficulties when trying to communicate in an effective manner, recruit, train, evaluate performance, discipline, and delegate all at the same time. For anyone, it's a lot to have on your plate. This book makes it seem simple. It offers way to alleviate some of the frustration that comes with the job.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hospitality Supervision Textbook Package, January 9, 2002
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"diz-u_student" (Orlando, Florida) - See all my reviews
This textbook package contained "Supervision in the Hospitality Industry" 3rd Edition hard cover (ISBN# 0-471-19420-0) and National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation-NRAEF ProMGMT Student Workbook (ISBN# 0471-41305-4). Chapter 9 on performance evaluation was the greatest insight. A great learning tool to help focus my job development within the huge vacation/hospitality employer I work for here in Orlando, Florida.
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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, July 20, 2001
As a culinary student in a reputable institute, I was presented this book to use as a textbook for my business management course. The structure was sufficient, focusing almost exclusively on the hospitality industry, but the content was not. The majority of the book deals with self-evident truths and situations that can best be solved by common sense, but instead Miller voices his opinion that when experience fails you, revert back to the management theories, most of which he denigrates, others that he blatantly misinterprets.

Miller also pens that "management at any level in an art", a statement that many would disagree with and should give some insights as to what the 10th grade, babble-filled prose is all about. For a management book, especially one for $..., I was expecting a more technical approach to managing - theories and illustrations also combined with charts and math, two aspects that are completely vacant in the textbook.

There is a general sense of the grim reality of the hospitality industry that I was relieved to see (two stars). There's mention of the low pay, hard work, and long hours that will inevitably come with the job, and the book maintains that thought throughout. Overall however, it's too much money, and too much time, for reading what I already know.

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