1. COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive coverage of quality management in hospitality. Emphasis will be placed on both theory and implementation of quality management. This course is to study the major principles of quality management: customer focus, continuous improvement, employee involvement, and process improvement, and fourteen principles of hospitality management. After that, students can have a chance to access to hospitality organization to understand its service strategy, staff and delivery system, then apply tools and framework to understand how hospitality companies approach and implement quality management in hospitality in order to improve their productivity, their performance and stay competitive. This course is of use of case studies and a project to gain knowledge in implementing quality management in hospitality
2. COURSE CONTENTS
No. |
Contents |
Time Allocation |
Contribution to CLO |
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Hour(s) on the class |
Essays, exercise, Assignments… (3) |
Self-study with teacher’s tutorials (4) |
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Lecture (1) |
Practice, Seminar… (2) |
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1 |
Chapter 1: Introduction to quality management |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
1,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
2 |
Chapter 2: Foundation of Quality management: philosophy& principles |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
1,2,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
3. |
Chapter 3: Quality management: models and frameworks |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
1,2,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
4. |
Chapter 4: Statistical tools in quality management |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
3,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
5. |
Chapter 5: Hospitality service strategy focus |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
3,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
6. |
Chapter 5: Hospitality service strategy focus (continued) |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
4,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
7. |
Chapter 5: Hospitality service strategy focus (continued) |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
4,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
8. |
Mid-term test |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
9. |
Chapter 6: Hospitality service staff focus |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
5,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
10. |
Chapter 6: Hospitality service staff focus (continued) |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
5,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
11. |
Chapter 6: Hospitality service staff focus (continued) |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
5,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
12. |
Chapter 7: The hospitality service delivery system |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
13. |
Chapter 7: The hospitality service delivery system (continued) |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
14. |
Chapter 8: Measuring and managing service delivery |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
15. |
Group presentation & Consolidation |
2 |
1 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 |
Total |
30 |
15 |
22.5 |
82.5 |
3. COURSE ASSESSMENT
– Score ladder: 10
– Type of assessment
Form |
Content |
Criteria |
CLO |
Proportion |
|
Formative |
Attendance |
|
|
1-13 |
15% |
Quiz, midterm test |
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Quick test, 30 minutes |
1 – 3, 8 -13 |
20% |
|
Report |
|
Group or individual assignment |
1 – 13 |
15% |
|
Summative |
Final test |
Application of theories of QM in hospitality in hospitality organization |
Writing (90 mins) |
1 – 11 |
50% |
|
|
|
Total: |
100% |
- Types of assessment
- Requirement for assessment when suggesting assessment method
- Assessment methods
- Presentation
- Field work
- Projet
- Case study
- MCQs
- Long essay questions