self-directed work teams, cross-training, task forces, management by walking around, employee surveys, sensing groups, information sharing, delegation strategies, involving employees in identifying
causes of poor service quality, encouraging and rewarding employees for suggestions and innovative ideas, and empowering employees to respond to customer needs. Getting employees to work in teams, by promoting teamwork, will enhance customer satisfaction, since employees will feel better supported,
reducing the stress and strains of service jobs. This will maintain their
enthusiasm, through camaraderie and support, improving their inclination to
provide service quality. The promotion of teamwork may require a restructuring
o f people around clusters of customers, where the work for the majority of
employees is organized around team working on specific customer segment. The
dominant mode of structuring work becomes self-managed teams and team
working which will encourage better decision-making and facilitate creative
problem-solving. Therefore, the HR practice of training and development in the
hotel industry is expected to be aligned with the above-mentioned core HR
strategy of developing people to deliver service quality and its sub-strategies