1st Edition
Organization Behaviour for Leisure Services
278 Pages
by
Routledge
370 Pages
by
Routledge
278 Pages
by
Routledge
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Organization Behaviour for Leisure Services provides the reader with the conceptual tools necessary for analysing organizational behaviour in the context of hospitality, leisure and tourism provision, and understaanding events in order to take appropriate management action. Taking the view that leisure services involve an array of industry sectors - they are related, for instance, to work-time... Read more
Introduction: hospitality, leisure and tourism definitions and debates; Hospitality, leisure and tourism management and organizational behaviour; The context of the leisure services organizations; Organizational structure design; Metaphors for understanding leisure services; Emotions in hospitality, leisure and tourism organizations; The individual in the service organization; Groups, leadership and power; Culture and the leisure services community; The empowered hospitality, leisure and tourism organization; Effective comunication in hospitality, leisure and tourism organizations; Managing diversity in the organization; Management as an integrating activity; Trends and futures in hospitality, leisure and tourism organizations.
Biography
Darren Lee-Ross, Associate Professor, Centre for Tropical Tourism Studies, James Cook University, Australia
Conrad Lashley, Professor in the Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, UK
"This book makes for a useful textbook for intermediate students and early-stage leisure management professionals and consultants that are looking for a wide-ranging, cursory, overview of organizational behaviour in leisure service organizations."
-Annals of Leisure Research
