To be objective and fair result measures, so far, most hotels have set up financial performance evaluation items which can easily measure. However, it needs to be a new evaluation that includes not only financial results but also non-financial results...
To be objective and fair result measures, so far, most hotels have set up financial performance evaluation items which can easily measure. However, it needs to be a new evaluation that includes not only financial results but also non-financial results and can evaluate on the integrated view. With reflecting these needs, there are changes that financial figures are not the ultimate object but a part of the performance evaluation. As one of these performance evaluation methods, the Balanced Scorecard(BSC), developed by Kaplan R. S. and D. P. Norton, supplements existing performance indexes and the integrated index that includes customer satisfaction, internal business process, and learning and growth, etc.
To solve problems of the existing performance evaluations, this study seeks to understand hotel's management performance using BSC on the new perspective. The purpose of this study is to figure out that which indexes are considered importantly when people in charge of hotel management performance evaluation estimate each hotel's performance.
To achieve this goal, this study (1) identifies perspective and indexes that in deluxe hotels located in Seoul people in charge of hotel's performance evaluation estimates importantly in appraising performance, (2) ultimately demonstrates the usefulness of the BSC.
The results and findings are as follows.
First, in respect of the priorities on each perspective, the special lst class hotels consider financial perspective(35.8%) most importantly among the 4 perspectives, but the special 2nd class hotels are considered customer perspective(33.7%) most importantly.
Second, with regard to the priorities on each index, the special 1st class hotels think over importantly customer satisfaction, customer profitability, EVA, customer holding rates/loyalty, however, the special 2nd class hotels regard customer satisfaction more important than other indexes and consider momentously ROI, operating profit, customer profitability.
From the results of this study, it was found that both financial view and non-financial view must be considered importantly in estimating hotel's performance evaluation. Especially, we can see that customer perspective is very important in the hospitality industry, because customer satisfaction and customer profitability account for about 20% among 19 indexes. This brings background of the future study in the area of hotel's performance evaluation on using the BSC.
As mentioned above, this study suggests perspective and indexes that are considered importantly in doing hotel's performance evaluation, and aims at suggesting the usefulness of the BSC for the hospitality industry. However, this study has some limitations as follows:
First, performance evaluation system must include evaluation object and subject, evaluation terms, and compensation. But, this study treats only the selectness of the evaluation indexes and the analysis of the priorities with respect to performance evaluation.
Second, in designing the performance evaluation system in accordance with the BSC, it must be started from the long-term strategies and vision of the hotel, but this study doesn't consider about it.
Third, there is a limit in generalization the results because the subject of investigation is limited to the deluxe hotels in Seoul.
In conclusion, this study using the BSC demonstrates the importance of not only financial view but also non-financial view in evaluating hotel's performance. Therefore, in estimating hotel's performance, the BSC is a useful tool and should be introduced as soon as possible.