This course has been designed to take the graduate student, already having an academic foundation in human resource management one step beyond into the literature focusing on problems and issues of specific interest in the hospitality area.

This course is designed to take the graduate students, already having an academic foundation in human resource management, one step beyond into the literature focusing on issues of specific interest in the hospitality area. The course will include class discussion in a seminar format and smaller group interaction. A portion of the course will be devoted to discussion of the assigned texts and journal articles. Students should be prepared in advance by reading all assigned material in a manner that encourages class discussion.

Book
1. Human Resource Management: A customer-oriented approach. By D. R. Newman & R. M Hodgetts
2. Human resources management: perspectives, context, functions, and outcomes. By Gerald R. Ferris & M. Ronald Buckley. Third Edition. Prentice Hall: New York.
3. Organizational behavior, S. P. Robbins, Pearson Prentice Hall.
4. From good to great (從A到A+)
Selected readings from the following journals:
Tourism Management
International Journal of Hospitality Management
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management
Journal of Human Resources in Hospitality & Tourism