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Universidad de Palermo

Human Capital Management in Hospitality

Universidad de Palermo via FutureLearn

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Overview

Assess the skills, knowledge, and potential of your team

Since people are a key element in hospitality management, it’s vital that you understand the human capital of your business: the skills, knowledge, competencies, and attributes of your team.

You’ll learn the importance of human capital in the hospitality industry on this four-week course, from recruiting and training the perfect team to managing motivation and teamwork to ensure guest satisfaction.

Explore the relationship between internal and external customers

Making sure that your guests are happy with the service in your hotel is one of the most important factors in hotel management. But you also have internal customers that need to be satisfied, and that’s the staff.

You’ll learn how to assess the different aspects of human capital and identify which skills and attributes can give you a real competitive advantage.

Develop effective processes for recruiting and motivating teams

To optimise service, you need to first understand what makes a great team function effectively.

You’ll look at the full process of building a highly competitive and productive team, from recruitment and selection to motivating them. You’ll learn the techniques and tools to use to ensure you build and cultivate the best team for your business.

Learn techniques for hospitality training and management in the digital era

Much has changed in the hospitality industry over the years, with digital tools transforming many aspects of the hotel business.

This course will guide you through human capital management in the digital era and how using digital tools and robotics can improve your training and overall management of staff.

This course is designed for anyone with an interest in the tourism and hospitality sector. It will be especially useful to university students currently studying hospitality or for any professionals in the industry.

If you want to explore this subject further, you may be interested in these courses. They’re from the same provider and share the same overall learning outcomes:

  • Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality
  • Event Management in Tourism and Hospitality
  • Hotel Revenue Management

Syllabus

  • Human capital
    • What is human capital and how is it managed in the hospitality industry?
    • What is hospitality? How can we entertain guests in the hospitality industry?
    • Identifying aspects of human capital
  • Personnel planning in the different departments of a hotel
    • What are the departments that make up a hotel organization?
    • What is the Human Resources area within the organization?
    • Learning how to plan human resources in hotel companies
  • The operation of competitive and motivated teams
    • Team building considerations
    • The importance of knowledge management
    • Understanding how high-performing, competitive and motivated teams work
  • The implications of changes in human capital management in the age of digitisation
    • Benefits of managing human capital effectively in the face of change
    • The importance and characteristics of the organizational environment
    • Conclusion of the last week and end of the course

Taught by

Vilma Insaurralde

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