Motivation Strategies for Huntsman Hotel: A Rewarding Approach

Human resource
management
TABLE OF CONTENT
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
1. HR issues according to case study...........................................................................................3
2. Recommending changes in light of analysis to the practices of rewarding people at work.
Evaluate the risks and rewards of the proposed measures...........................................................5
3. Changes in management of people of Huntsman....................................................................7
CONCLUCION...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Management of human resources (HRM) is always referred to be an integral part of all
business establishments where they exist with a prime obligation of handling the overall
manpower resources of the firm. It thereby represents a vital contribution of HRM in the
business by tackling their overall operational procedures by firstly managing the appointed set of
personnel’s (Fairhurst and Connaughton, 2014). It is hereby referred to be a subsequent
accountability of those employees to carry out their respective tasks and assignations as a way of
succeeding towards the undertaken goals and objectives of the business. The present report has
enlightened the similar composition of Huntsman Hotels PLC by considering their stipulated
measures of HRM to manage their respective workforce. Wherein, they are currently running
over 60 hotels all over UK with some profound services for their users to stay in a budgeted
accommodation that depicts a structural and clean surrounding under an affordable pricing.
TASK
1. HR issues according to case study
The recent report has reflected the state of Huntsman Hotel in UK where they are
currently referred to deal with some significant number of issues in their HRM department. It is
however referred to be one of the most renowned hotel in the downtown location of UK where it
is situated at the mid of the city to attract a large set of tourists visiting the nation (Alfes and
et.al., 2013). It is also due to another leading cause of its easily approachable system of
transportation where this in turn fetches a liable interest of more number of visitors. In context to
which, a majority of guests tends to stay over here for 1 to 3 nights with most number of business
persons who approaches in the weekdays. However, there together exists yet another substantial
group of tourists entitled as the leisure travellers who mostly visits on weekends to spend their
holidays.
Although, the cited entity named Huntsman Hotel is presently facing a ferocious state of
competition in their UK market which is mainly due to some proficient rivals in this sector of
hotel industry like Travelodge, Ibis and Premier Inns, etc. This has resultantly affected their
managerial decisions by directly affecting their staffing procedures with a shortfall of employees
to work with them (Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee, 2013). It is with a foremost concern of
appointing efficient managerial staffs where it has together impacted upon their enlargement
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programs with a confined opportunity of growth. It has even resulted in effecting into their
domicile marketplace where they were constrained to cancel their bookings at a very short notice
period. It has together articulated some atrocious causes of unwellness in employees that has led
to create a major issue in the growth consideration of the quoted enterprise. It is however
rupturing their image by together leading to a major sense of frustration in the workers and has
thus postulated them to start hiring agency workers on occasional basis to effectively serve the
clients and users.
Also, the organisation is currently referred to work under a flat organisational structure
where most of their decisions are being undertaken by their managing director (MD) named
Giuseppe Salieri who is referred to owe 51% of its share. Being an illustrious business person
and entrepreneur of varied business set ups he is together referred to have some leading plans of
expansion where this venture was inherited by him from his father in the year 2007 (Li, Salinas
and Li, 2014). It was however due to a major cause discovered by him to run a budgeted chain of
hotel to serve the factual needs and demands of the people residing in and around UK. As a
result to which, he has hereby extended this business operation in the lieu of a consequent state
of recession to involve hotels in other leading cities of this nation after first commencing it in
London.
He is together reputed to be a shrewd individual with brave plans of expansion by taking
fast decisions where in accordance to him, there lies another fact of being lazy with an under-
achievable expertise. In concord to which, management of people is a weaken skill of him and as
a result of which, they are dealing with such disastrous results of high staff turnover with a major
loss of senior administrative team (Renwick, Redman and Maguire, 2013). As a result to which,
he has now appointed a new HR head namely Jacques Marechal who has been hired from one of
their leading rivals Ibis to address the pertaining problems of Huntsman Hotel. It is however
referred to be an impressive task for him where he is already well aware about a miserable
reputation of Huntsman Hotel in order to manage its affiliated bodies with some prior experience
in this field of HRM. Wherein, he has previously dealt with such varied situations of low morale
employees and issues related to the planning of workforce, etc.
Herein, with a short time period to ascertain the factual issues prevailing in Huntsman
Hotel with their key solution, he has come up with a foremost concern about their recruitment
and selection (R&S) procedures. Along with which, this organisation is together suspected to
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