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15 the role of service in the hospitality industry
1. The Role of Service in
the Hospitality Industry
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2. Characteristics of Service
• Involves the guest’s experience and the staff’s performance
• Guest and server are both part of transaction
• Quality control is difficult
• Standard must be zero defects
• Production and consumption are simultaneous (There is no
inventory)
4. Product View of Service
• Focuses on the tasks that make up service
• Emphasizes controlling employee behavior
• Controls cost of transaction/process objective, measurable standards
• Concentrates on what we do
5. Process View of Service
• Emphasizes interaction between the service organization and the
guest
• Empowers employees to satisfy guests’ needs and desires
• Empowers employees to solve guests’ problems
• Concentrates on what the guest wants
6. Setting a Service Strategy
• Choose market segment or segments
• Determine appropriate service level and standards
• Do not over promise
• Fulfill expectations
7. • Keep stated service policies and actual practice the same
• Communicate management position to employees
• Treat employees as internal customers
• Remove obstacles that keep people from doing their jobs
• Restrain bureaucracy
Management’s Responsibilities in Establishing and
Maintaining a Service Culture
8. Making the Employee the Product
•Hire people who fit with the company and the
service team
•Emphasize cross-training
•Provide core training
•Motivate through feedback and rewards
•Establish award programs that recognize excellence
•Involve employees in setting service standards and
developing procedures