Learning through active engagement: case teaching in hospitality management

College Quarterly - Articles - Teaching for Engagement: Part 1: Constructivist Principles, Case-Based Teaching, and Active Learning

In the Winter, 2015, issue of The College Quarterly, Donovan McFarlane provided some guidelines for the use of case studies in college teaching based in part on his own experience and in part on the published literature. This was not the first time that case-based teaching was the focus of work in the College Quarterly. Skliarenko & Bhardwaj (2004) provided a very brief introduction to case-bas...

Develop and improve teaching and learning through blended learning Teaching Development and Improvement through Blended Learning

Introduction: E-learning is being replaced with traditional methods. The e-learning also has its own limitations and cannot be replaced by traditional education, completely. The educational experts try to mix e-learning and traditional learning in different ways, despite the advantages and disadvantages of the both methods. This article aims to introduce and evaluate blended learning approac...

Hospitality Management : Learning , Doing , Knowing

A Model of Hospitality Employee Engagement

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Promoting Innovation in Hospitality Companies through Human Resource Management Practices

In this study, we investigate how hospitality companies can promote incremental and radical innovation through human resource management practices (i.e., selection and training). Data from 196 independent hotels and restaurants operating in the People’s Republic of China show that hiring multi-skilled core customer-contact employees and training core customer-contact employees for multiple skil...