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Author : Anja Hergesell, Ulrike Bauernfeind & Dagmar Lund-Durlacher
School/Work Place : MODUL University Vienna, Austria
Contact : anja.hergesell@modul.ac.at, ulrike.bauernfeind@modul.ac.at, dagmar.lund-durlacher@modul.ac.at
Year : 2009

The role of human resources in sustaining hospitality enterprises has long been recognized (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Baum 2007). Personnel are considered vital for the delivery of touristic experiences, thus being a central ingredient of the product offer (Baum 2007). Despite the high unemployment in the sector (Smeral, Huber et al. 2008), several researchers have reported on difficulties of hospitality enterprises to fill their vacancies (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Smeral, Huber et al. 2008) and retain their employees (Iverson und Deery 1997; Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Smeral, Huber et al. 2008). While turnover may have positive effects for the employees in terms of competence development (Deery und Shaw 1997) and hence somewhat also benefit the companies, exiting the sector might be considered a “brain drain” in the hospitality industry (Ross 1997).

The generally identified competition with other sectors for qualified personnel (Hjalager und Andersen 2001), on the one hand, and the profound global trends that challenge hospitality enterprises (Dwyer, Edwards et al. 2009), on the other, in particular demographic changes drive the present study. Suggesting a decrease in the availability of the “traditional” labor force (Smeral, Huber et al. 2008) and an intensification of employee driven mobility (Baum 2007), the research aims to understand the mobility from the hospitality sector to other industries, in order to develop strategies of how to retain and attract workers. The study explores the employees’ and former employees’ perceptions of the work in the hospitality industry attempting to identify the underlying beliefs and attitudes that shape peoples’ behavior in regards to their continuance or abandonment of the industry. Being frequently termed as a “women industry” (Stuppäck 2005) and recognizing the unused potential of female labor in the case study country of Austria (Ramb 2008), the focus of the study lies on females, hence excluding gender-related differences in perception as suggested by Purcell (1996) by examining a purposeful female sample.


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12 Think Tank XVIII Sustainable Experience: Innovative sustainable communi... file 4252 Jan 07, 2019

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11 Think Tank IV Possibilities for Sustainable Tourism Management in Ac... file 4803 Oct 13, 2013

Sustainability is an inevitable concept in tourism which heavily depends on natural resources and environment with its products and services. Here prevention and controlling water, air and noise pollution, habitat degradation is more importa...

Author: Meryem Atik, Türker Altan & A. Akin Aksu 

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10 Think Tank VIII Integrating Sustainability into Tourism Education and ... file 5013 Oct 13, 2013

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9 Think Tank X Sustainability: What Matters to Students, Educators, a... file 5778 Oct 13, 2013

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8 Think Tank IV Attitudes towards Environmental Responsibility among S... file 5926 Oct 13, 2013

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7 Think Tank VIII Responding to Climate Change in Australian Resort Hote... file 6664 Oct 13, 2013

Extensive infrastructure and client expectations of luxury will mean that their carbon footprint and water usage is likely to exceed significantly that of average urban households. Often located in coastal or riverine settings, they are vuln...

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» Think Tank IX The role of values in sustaining the hospitality labou... file 6722 Oct 13, 2013

The role of human resources in sustaining hospitality enterprises has long been recognized (Hjalager und Andersen 2001; Baum 2007). Personnel are considered vital for the delivery of touristic experiences, thus being a central ingredient of ...

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Year: 2009 

5 Think Tank XI CRS 2.0: Management Perspectives of Sustainable Hospit... file 8206 Oct 14, 2013

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4 Think Tank VIII Employment of the Disabled Workforce in the Hospitalit... file 9348 Oct 13, 2013

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3 Think Tank VII Barriers to Innovation in Hospitality Provision: Towar... file 9458 Oct 13, 2013

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2 Think Tank IV Impediments to Sustainable Service Quality in Luxury H... file 16104 Oct 13, 2013

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1 Think Tank VI Corporate Social Responsibility in the Catalan hospita... file 76468 Oct 13, 2013

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