Solving the Professional Development Puzzle or Hospitality Management

Solving the Professional Development Puzzle: 101 Solutions for Career and Life Planning

Author: Robert M Sherfield

Written in an engaging, common-sense tone, Solving the Professional Development Puzzle provides real-life, cutting edge information vital to students competing in a difficult, challenging, and competitive job market. From developing an effective, error-free resume and cover letter to interviewing with class and grace, this text provides examples, activities, suggestions, and concrete strategies to perfect a job search.

Each chapter of the book has been designed to assist students in learning specific material while exploring their potential, forming their value system and character development, learning job search skills, mastering etiquette and manners, developing networking skills, honing leadership abilities, learning good investment and financial practices, and enriching their personal lives.

The coverage of ethics and character development is second to none in this market.

Features include:

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  “Why” Questions: chapter objectives identify some of the main questions that students should answer as they work through each chapter.
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  Solutions: 101 solutions to workplace issues, strategically placed in each chapter according to the content, serve as a piece of the professional development puzzle.
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  If You Were in Charge: gives students a workplace situation typical of what leaders frequently face and provides students opportunities to explore their decision-making ability in the safety of the classroom.
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  Biggest Interview Blunders: help students to avoid common interviewblunders assisting them in finding and securing a highly desirable position.
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  Positive Habits at Work: instills in students positive work habits to help them be successful in their chosen careers.

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Hospitality Management: A Capstone Course

Author: Matt A Casado

This unique book helps readers prepare for the hotel and restaurant operational tasks they’ll come across when working in the industry. Reader-friendly, it offers extensive coverage of useful topics, operational situations, and management cases from the major areas of the hospitality field.

Topics challenges readers’ competency in problem-solving, critical thinking, effective communication, ethical reasoning, quantitative analysis, and the use of technology.

A valuable handbook for restaurant managers, hotel and motel managers, and others that need a comprehensive compilation of hospitality management topics. Professionals will be able to brush up on any food and beverage or lodging topic quickly.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Obtaining a management-training position	3
Ch. 2	Food operations	20
Ch. 3	Beverage operations	35
Ch. 4	Housekeeping operations	46
Ch. 5	Front office operations	54
Ch. 6	Sales and marketing operations	62
Ch. 7	Engineering operations	72
Ch. 8	Controlling hospitality operations	83
Ch. 9	Hospitality accounting	97
Ch. 10	Strategic planning and management	109
Ch. 11	Ethics and hospitality management	120
Ch. 12	Hospitality communication	129
Ch. 13	Hospitality organizational behavior and management	138
Ch. 14	Hospitality leadership	152
Ch. 15	Hospitality law	165