1. Lack of policy on quality implies that the hotel managers’ efforts to deliver on the
quality front are inhibited by lack of an effective visible mechanism to communicate
the company’s commitment to distinctive quality ethos. The notion that a service
guarantee replaces the need for a formal policy on quality, in the view of this
researcher is misplaced and represents strange logic. A service guarantee, instead,
should be viewed as a service failure mechanism that serves to buttress the policy on
quality.
2. The failure to implement action plans by management implies that managers are
resorting to managing or manipulating the measurement system for their own bonus
interests at the expense of organisational goals. Consequently, due to the lucrative
bonus scheme linked to budgets, managers may be predisposed to pursue courses
of action that make budgets look good even if that could be detrimental to continuous
improvement efforts.
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