Hotel business nowadays has transformed into consumer’s perspective which effected highly on other business’ products and service compared to the past. In order to succeed and see growth of we have to offer the best products and service to guest t...
Hotel business nowadays has transformed into consumer’s perspective which effected highly on other business’ products and service compared to the past. In order to succeed and see growth of we have to offer the best products and service to guest to fulfill their wants and have the consumers’ to believe that it is worth what they are paying. “We will not be satisfied unless our guest is satisfied”, for instance GE or LG has been building great credibility to guest without imprinting their slogan. Philip Kotler(2010) stated on Market 3.0; that the world is watching in a perception of value.
In order to survive in this world of value, hotel industry has to compete. Many researches are being done on becoming the best. By looking into the researches we can find how much of an impact that constructional culture reflects on management performance(Choi Hoon-tae, Lee Gwang-ok, 2011; Han, 2012), also market oriented highly effects the management performance and researchers found that it reflects on bringing the outcome/result(Smirich, 1983; Choi Jung-hwan, 2010; Choi Young-soo, 2005; Homburg & Pflesser, 2000; Kala, Spillan and Oscar, 2005).
In addition to corporate competition, marketing is currently is focused on important issues on activating substantial market orientation(Kim Bong-kwan, Lee Kang-ho, 2008). Market Orientation, nowadays plays a high role in highly effecting ‘corporate culture’(Jung Dong-sub, 2007). In order for corporate to execute continuously, needed to focus on how the organization is affecting the corporate culture and is essential to know in what ways(Narver & Slater, 1990). Furthermore corporate has had differentiate core competencies; focusing on market power, economies of scale, market share and growth but recently has changed on focusing in providing customers with the most valuables(Oh Jae-shin, Jeong Ki-han, Kim Dae-eob, 2005).
Corporate culture is mainly being used as a source to improve organizational performance(Kim Young-jo, Park San-un, 1998) important business elements to determine the performance of the company’s business strategy(Yeo Eun-ah, Park Kwang-hee, Kim Moon-young, 2008) and can effect direct management performance(Doran, Haddad & Chow, 2003). This visualization has become a recent enterprise according to the characteristics of its corporate culture based on business goals and to set to the right direction.
If Market orientation is a corporate culture than consumer orientation is a customer culture in an employee’s view. Many of the previous researches had considered consumer orientation as a sub-factor(Peter & Waterman, 1982; Deshpande, 1993; Day & Wensley, 1998). This practice brings different views; corporate-wide is to market orientation and personal-wide is to consumer orientation(Siguaw, Brown and Widing, 1994; Naver & Slater, 1990; Kohli & Jaworski, 1990). According to Seo Kyung-won(2007)’s study, consumer orientation brings positive management performance and in order to secure revenue and needs to be considered separately from corporate orientation. There was a research of how consumer orientation effects the corporate culture by Park Joo-san(2009) but how organizational culture in hotel industry effects the consumer orientation is still considered poorly. Difference in management forms/style is also researched poorly. Management contracted hotel and franchised hotel shows the difference of hotel environments when majority of the staffs are local(Korean). This had also appeared on Hofsted(1980)’s study, even global branded corporate showed cultural relativism and the following country reflected their country’s cultural difference into corporate culture and which can also predict smaller corporate can influence organizational culture. This research is to identify the relationships of corporate cultures in corporate orientation and consumer orientation influenced by management forms of hotel industries. To reach the goal of this research I have studied the previous researches and had surveyed some questionnaire. This study was researched Seoul, Korea’s 5 star hotels; among the 19 hotels foreign brand chain hotel(including management contract hotel and franchise hotel) ①Ritz Carlton, ②Grand Hyatt, ③Grand Hilton, these 3 hotels were managed in the form of franchise hotel but personnel of independence, under Korean General manager and employment training. By Further studied had proved that ①Sheraton Grande Walkerhill is managed strongly by owner company, ②Lotte hotel is an independent hotel, ③Silla hotel etc, researched was done by people; with 3 years of working experience (as permanent) at 6 different type hotels. This studying had selected 6 hotels: 3 foreign brand hotels operated under management contract or franchised. International management system is being used and including Walkerhill hotel 3 of the hotels mentioned above is having independent brands and can be a good contrast among other hotels.
This case studying had selected to do a research on staffs with over 3 years of working experience for the reason of staffs with less than 3 years of experience may not have enough knowledge to provide concrete results. I have asked the director of Human Resource in Sheraton Grande Hotel and explained the thesis and purpose of the survey and asked to distribute to 6 other chained hotels. 60 sheets of the surveys were distributed to 6 different hotels and total of 360 copies were handed out. 326 were handed back in(90.5%). 11 copies had been eliminated for the reason for ‘missing value’ and total and 315(87.5%) copies had been considered as valid sample and by hypothesis testing these statistical analysis were used for the studying. 315 respondents were divided into different categories: sex, years of experience, age, role, located departments and for conducting an this study, we divided and set up the hypothesis of twenty on four domains are to verified further details about.
To achieve this goal