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B2B Sales Force Productivity: Applications of Revenue Management Strategies to Sales Management
Siguaw, Judy A.; Kimes, Sheryl E.; Gassenheimer, Jule B. (2003-10-01)Firms should be able to apply the time-based philosophy of revenue management to their sales forces. To do so requires a revision in the way most sales divisions traditionally have viewed salesperson time. Hence, a different ... -
Basing Service Management on Customer Determinants: The Importance of Hot Pizza
Verma, Rohit; Thompson, Gary M. (1996-06-01)[Excerpt] This article presents an approach for positioning hospitality services according to customer tastes and preferences known as discrete-choice analysis (DCA), which has been successfully used for a variety of ... -
Because It Takes Two: Why Post-Dispute Voluntary Arbitration Programs Will Fail to Fix the Problems Associated with Employment Discrimination Law Adjudication
Sherwyn, David S. (2003-01-01)For more than a decade, the employment law community, including the plaintiffs’ bar, the defense bar, and a cavalcade of academicians, has fiercely debated the use (or misuse, as some argue) of arbitration for the adjudication ... -
Becoming a Leader in the Hospitality Industry
Hinkin, Timothy R. (2011-01-01)[Excerpt] Leadership has been defined in many ways, but the essence of leadership involves influencing people toward a desired objective. Leaders do not push followers—they pull them. While management is often concerned ... -
Behavioral Integrity as a Critical Ingredient for Transformational Leadership
Simons, Tony L. (1999-01-01)Behavioral integrity is the perceived fit between espoused and enacted values. We propose that the maintenance of behavioral integrity is a highly problematic and consequential element of the successful management of change. ... -
Behavioral Integrity for Safety, Priority of Safety, Psychological Safety, and Patient Safety: A Team-Level Study
Leroy, Hannes; Dierynck, Bart; Anseel, Frederik; Simons, Tony L.; Halbesleben, Jonathon R. B.; McCaughey, Deirdre; Savage, Grant T.; Sels, Luc (2012-11-01)This paper clarifies how leader behavioral integrity for safety helps solve follower’s double bind between adhering to safety protocols and speaking up about mistakes against protocols. Path modelling of survey data in 54 ... -
Behavioral Integrity: The Perceived Alignment Between Managers’ Words and Deeds as a Research Focus
Simons, Tony L. (2002-02-01)This paper focuses on the perceived pattern of alignment between a manager's words and deeds, with special attention to promise keeping, and espoused and enacted values. It terms this perceived pattern of alignment “Behavioral ... -
Benchmarks for Excellence Cornell's Management-Development Program
Brownell, Judi; Jameson, Daphne (1995-08-01)Rather than create separate courses for such critical skills as effective communication and working with groups, Cornell's redesigned master's degree program requires students to achieve specific performance benchmarks. -
Best Hotel Environmental Practices
Enz, Cathy A.; Siguaw, Judy A. (1999-10-01)As the four environmental champions here demonstrate, operating a "green" hotel is not only good practice but good business. -
Best Practices in Food and Beverage Management
Siguaw, Judy A.; Enz, Cathy A. (1999-10-01)Reports of the death of hotel food service are highly exaggerated. Indeed, food service remains an essential part of many hotels’ operations. -
Best Practices in Hotel Architecture
Siguaw, Judy A.; Enz, Cathy A. (1999-10-01)By making their rooms as home-like as possible, the best hotels are using architecture and design to add value to the guests’ experience. -
Best Practices in Hotel Operations
Siguaw, Judy A.; Enz, Cathy A. (1999-12-01)Operations is the heart of a hotel. Efforts to improve operations can focus on a single department or address the entire organization. -
Best Practices in Human Resources
Enz, Cathy A.; Siguaw, Judy A. (2000-02-01)No hotel can have excellent operations without excellent employees – and that requires excellent human resources practices. -
Best Practices in Information Technology
Siguaw, Judy A.; Enz, Cathy A. (1999-10-01)In this paper we provide a detailed account of the information-technology practices of individual best-practices champions and identify the outcomes of each practice. We also present the advice and suggestions that these ... -
Best Practices in Marketing
Siguaw, Judy A.; Enz, Cathy A. (1999-10-01)Here are 20 ways to focus more closely on satisfying hotel guests – thereby making more money for the property. -
Best Practices in Service Quality
Enz, Cathy A.; Siguaw, Judy A. (2000-10-01)To achieve the highest service quality, managers of a baker’s dozen of lodging operations have given authority to their employees. -
Best Practices in the U.S. Lodging Industry: Overview, Methods, and Champions
Dubé, Laurette; Enz, Cathy A.; Renaghan, Leo M.; Siguaw, Judy A. (1999-08-01)When a lodging operation is doing an innovative and excellent job in a particular area, the industry benefits from spreading the word about the practice. But first one has to discover those best practices. -
Beyond Gratitude and Gratuity: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Predictors of Restaurant Tipping
Lynn, Michael; McCall, Michael (2016-01-25)Every year consumers voluntarily give away billions of dollars to service workers in the form of tips. The voluntary nature of tipping raises interesting questions about why people tip and what factors influence their ... -
Bidding on Priceline
Anderson, Chris K.; Wilson, John G.; Zhang, Gouren (2008-09-01)Priceline.com is an Internet-based corporation offering services (airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, and home mortgages) with the option for consumers to dictate prices. Priceline's original success stemmed from ... -
Black and Blue: Exploring Racial Bias and Law Enforcement in the Killings of Unarmed Black Male Civilians
Hall, Alison V.; Hall, Erika V.; Perry, Jamie (2016-04-01)In late 2014, a series of highly publicized police killings of unarmed Black male civilians in the United States prompted large-scale social turmoil. In the current review, we dissect the psychological antecedents of these ...