Ben Henry, Wismore Butcher, Yvette Browne, May Hinds and Chandana Jayawardena
Aims to capture the highlights and outcomes of the second annual Caribbean roundtable discussion of human resource challenges in the Caribbean hospitality industry, during which…
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Aims to capture the highlights and outcomes of the second annual Caribbean roundtable discussion of human resource challenges in the Caribbean hospitality industry, during which 33 participants and observers from industry and academia debated a series of themes: nurturing talent; curriculum issues; languages in the curriculum; alienation and low morale in the workforce; foreign ownership; unionization; training and development and managing human resources. Key points made by participants are clustered under these themes.
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May Hinds, Yvette Browne, Ben Henry, Chandana Jayawardena and Wismore Butcher
Provides an overview on the current human resource challenges facing the Caribbean hospitality industry, drawing on a presentation made at the second annual Caribbean roundtable…
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Provides an overview on the current human resource challenges facing the Caribbean hospitality industry, drawing on a presentation made at the second annual Caribbean roundtable discussion, held in Barbados during April 2004, attended by 33 participants and observers from industry and academia. The outcomes are reported here and in the second of two articles, “Future human resource challenges in the Caribbean hospitality industry”.