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Hotel Paris
The Hotel Paris’s competitive strategy is “to use superior guest service to differentiate the Hotel Paris properties, and to thereby increase the
length of stay and return rate of guests, and thus boost revenues and profitability.” HR manager Lisa Cruz must now formulate functional
policies and activities that support this competitive strategy and boost performance, by eliciting the required employee behaviors and
competencies.
As a longtime HR professional, Lisa Cruz was well aware of the importance of effective employee recruitment. If the Hotel Paris didn’t get
enough applicants, it could not be selective about who to hire. And, if it could not be selective about who to hire, it wasn’t likely that the hotels
would enjoy the customer-oriented employee behaviors that the company’s strategy relied on. She was therefore disappointed to discover that
the Hotel Paris was paying virtually no attention to the job of recruiting prospective employees. Individual hotel managers slapped together
help wanted ads when they had positions to fill, and no one in the chain had any measurable idea of how many recruits these ads were
producing or which recruiting approaches worked the best (or worked at all). Lisa knew that it was time to step back and get control of the
Hotel Paris’s recruitment function…
Question 1:
Given the hotel’s required personnel skills, what recruiting sources would you have
suggested it use, and why?
Solution
:
Internal External Source
Source • Advertisement on Electronic & Print Media
• Through Job Posting for Internal
Candidates • Advertisement on Paper Media
Solution:
Solution
:
Quantifying adequacy of enrolling
endeavors
• Assessing enlistment of expenses and advantages.
Solution
:
Improving recruitment
effectiveness
• Utilizing information to target & draw candidates from the more
extensive work market