This research, which was preposed to found hotel employee's core competency , figured out the relative importance and the priority of core confidence with establishing the evaluation factors based on experts' survey.
To accomplish an aim of this stud...
This research, which was preposed to found hotel employee's core competency , figured out the relative importance and the priority of core confidence with establishing the evaluation factors based on experts' survey.
To accomplish an aim of this study, literature review based on former study was followed and factors of core confidence for hotelier provided.
After the first experts’ survey and the second pair wise comparison survey, a statical package of Expert Choice 2000 was used to analyze the collected date and AHP(analytic Hierarchy Process)was executed.
Thorough pre survey and a couple of experts' survey, it gained the result of final 6 high hierarchy, 20 middle hierarchy, the rest of 72 low hierarchy factors.
When AHP survey was carried out, it brought more than 10 years hotel industry experienced employee to the servery in order to have the expertise at the core competency evaluation factors and unbiased outlook.
As a result, it was defined the importance of each category relatively.
Looking at the each factor of the high hierarchy, customer orientation, job competency, organization management, interpersonal relationship, clients hospitality, costumer relationship, customer satisfaction were the most influence factors in the evaluation of the hotel employees core competencies.
Looking at the each factor of the middle hierarchy, from general characteristics, apparence character, attitude character, personality character were the most important influence. From this a decent appearance, clean attire and a correct posture was the most important factors.
Looking at the job competency category, practical skills, response to the emergency situations, management and information seeking was the most important influence. From this result most important factor was having wide knowledge on the hospitality products, understanding other cultures, being able to speak difference languages other than their mother tongue, and practical experience in the field.
From customer orientation part, customer satisfaction, customer hospitality, customer care manager was the important factors. So pre-determine the customers demand, understanding the customers demands, figuring out customer preference, good manner and skills was the important factors.
From organization management part, team work, organization harmony and leadership was important factors. So putting team as first priority, taking responsibility when problem arise, fully understanding the team goals and putting it into actions, and last of all, good relationship with the teammate was the most important factors.
From Self-management part, adaptation of work environment, self development, inward and outward management, reputation management skills was important factors. In interpersonal relationship interact, respect and consideration, and social network was the important factors resulting in understanding others, interact, and respect and consideration.
Third of all, following the analysis of the lower hierarchy priority order, the most important factor was how we would satisfy the customers with manner and service skills, followed by fulfil the customers' need in advance and the truly smile whenever performing the service.
With the process mentioned above, we found hotelier‘s relative importance and priority order. As usual, we regard those abilities such as speaking foreign languages, service expertise, job competency as the vital factors, as far as the result we got above is concerned, how we concentrate on the customers' need is rather crucial. So far, all the personnel hotel hospitality industry related to service must be weighed rather than any other abilities.
Due to this results, in future orientations towards the customer will have big influence on the assessing on the employee competency.