Enhancing Graduate Employability

in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism
Edited by Nina Becket and Patsy Kemp

Employability is currently an important theme for all higher education institutions. This book will be of value to anyone interested in employability, or involved in curriculum development in higher education.

The case studies are written by lecturers from the business, hospitality, leisure, sport & tourism communities, and demonstrate best practice in embedding employability into the curriculum.

Contributors

Gillian Armstrong – Karen Bill – Will Bowen-Jones – Nicola Bullivant – John Buswell – Debra Enzenbacher – Lesley Ferkins – Jenny Fleming – Helen George – Kate Greenan Jacqui Gush – Helen Higson – David Hind – Graham Holden – Marc Keech – Vanessa Knowles – Bridget Major – Mary Malcolm – Una McMahon-Beattie – Angela Maher – Gudrun Myers – Etta Parkes – Petia Petrova – Sean Power Gail Thompson – Angela Tomkins – Rob Ward – Dorota Ujma

£27.00 (paperback) 2006 216x138 mm 176pp ISBN 978-1-903152-15-7

 

Best Practice in Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure

Edited by Andrea Bowen, Peter Jones and Andrew Lockwood

Published for The Best Practice Forum

The cutting edge of applied industry research on success and productivity in leading small and medium-sized enterprises

1 Introduction: Researching profit through productivity
2 Transformational leadership and effective small hospitality businesses
3 Best practice in operational planning and control
4 Making the most of partnerships and networks
5 Effective internal communication
6 Strategies for employee retention
7 Achieving standards for successful small business operations
8 Enhancing customer value for successful small business operations
9 Balanced scorecards for performance measurement
10 Small business success

Contributors

Andrea Bowen – Yuksel Ekinci – Julie Gore – Li-Jessica Hwang – Peter Jones – Olympia Kyriakidou – Andrew Lockwood – Panos Louvieris – Paul Phillips – Edith Szivas – Daniela Warr – Jetske Van-Westering

£22.50 (paperback) 246 x 189mm 2003 54 pp ISBN 978-1-903152-11-9

A Decade of Hospitality Management Research

Tenth Anniversary Volume
Edited by Angela Roper
and Yvonne Guerrier

Owners, managers and operators should read this book…
Each chapter offers insight into the specific topic of research, whether it is small business or international chains, operations or human resources…
The book also offers insight into how it is conducted and alternative methodologies.
But finally… it provides a convincing case for showing how well-conducted and thorough studies can help us all to understand better the dynamics of the hospitality industry and how to operate effectively…
…it challenges your assumptions and makes you think – it’s worth the effort
Hospitality (HCIMA)

The best of recent hospitality management research
New papers from nine CHME research conferences published for the first time; each one contextualised and reviewed by its authors.

Contributors

Maureen Brookes – Elizabeth Chell – Liz Doherty – Anne Hampton – Conrad Lashley – Eric Laws – Rosemary Lucas – Paul A. Lynch– Alison J. Morrison – Luke Pittaway – Nick Radiven – Angela Roper – Lindsay Stead

£35.00 (paperback) 234 x 156mm 2001 184 pp ISBN 1-903152-07-2