surveyed a selected number of hotels from the top 50 hotel groups ranked by ownership
of bedroom stock, which were considered to be most likely to exhibit good
practice HRM. Despite this they concluded, ‘This study suggests that there is little
adoption of HRM philosophy in corporately owned hotels in the UK sample … [and
hospitality] … has a long way to go before it can claim that it is encouraging a “culture
of commitment”’ (ibid. p. 416). Similarly, Kelliher and Perrett (2001), drawing