Identification of Rationalising

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Employee theft
in hotels
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3/31/2020

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Executive summary
The aim of study reflects identification of rationalising and prevalence of
employee theft in hospitality industry with the purpose to help practitioners and
prevent workplace theft. Hotel industry reflects various type of theft like stealing of
food and preparing of additional food for personal use; theft of cash; complimentary
food and facilities; theft by the employees. Some of the motivation that has been
identified for this theft is personal grudges with management, dissatisfied
employment, lack of orientation communication with employees and financial
problem of employees. Petty theft reflects a small or unusual theft which is not
considered to be a real theft or is not considered a serious matter by the
organisation. Some of the strong attitudes concerning towards this issue are
regarding consequent price increase, financial loss and consumer satisfaction. The
recommended preventing strategies or tools in hotel industry include effective HR
policies, technological advances, and employee screening.

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Contents
Executive summary.................................................................................................................1
Introduction...............................................................................................................................3
Employee theft in hotels.........................................................................................................4
Conclusion................................................................................................................................8
References...............................................................................................................................9
Appendix..................................................................................................................................10

Employee theft in hotels 3
Introduction
The aim of study reflects identification of rationalising and prevalence of
employee theft in hospitality industry with the purpose to help practitioners and
prevent workplace theft. Workplace thefts by employees are common to be identified
in today’s world. This report will consider hospitality workers to understand the cause
of theft or motivation for the employees to steal. For this various types of employed
tips would be considered to study in the report along with employees from various
departments and types of theft they could be most tolerant in hotel industry.
Hotel industry has reflected various opportunities and challenges for human
resource management where employee turnover, employee theft, unethical
practices, training are some of the major aspects or challenges identified. In hotel
industry there are various departments theft can be conducted like food and
beverage department, front office employees, room service department, Marketing
department, human resource department (Shen, 2015). Thus, various tangible and
intangible types of employee theft will be discussed in the report.