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INTRODUCTION
Throughout the centuries the work and life of the people has been changing and
becoming complex day by day. The work, skill needed and the equipment’s used to
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perform the work have also been changing. So in order to manage the change, employee
training evolved. The employee without skill and knowledge working in an organization
is similar to a soldier who is without arms and ammunition fighting in the war. So in
order to win the war the soldier should be provided with arms and ammunition, the
employee should also be provided training through which the employee can develop skill
and knowledge if the organization desires to achieve success. Skill and knowledge is very
important for the employee to increase his/her performance level. In this ever changing
modern world the technology is also getting improved day by day so is the skill and
knowledge. The organization should provide training time to time which will help the
employee to develop skill and knowledge according to the advanced technology.
Employee development training program is a program which is provided to improve the
performance of the individual and group. Employee development training program has
become a very important topic in every organization who wants to pursue towards
success. Every organization is becoming aware that without training and developing their
employee they cannot achieve the organizational and the individual goal.
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focus comply the desired goals and objectives by the training and skill they provide to
their manpower lead to effective utilization of human resources in an organization.
Goal and objective cannot be achieved without employee; also business development
cannot be foresight. To let employee right get not jeopardized, they should be made
aware of business activities and how to tackle changes if any that hinders the way.
Employee also has right to get trained and learn on how to solve changing issues, thus
requiring training and development program.
Any organization’s main aim is to comply with their goals and objective which is
achieved through skilled manpower or effective human resource of organization. Since
organization considers them (employee) as weapon, they also need to be taken care of.
Many organizations think that employees are more concerned with financial benefit and
they are continuously seeking and working only for it but depending on this wrong belief
may drive employers to wrong direction of thinking and this may open the way for
employee to resign and leave the work which increases turnover of other related
employees as well. Training and development and educating employee not only increases
skills and knowledge in them but also keeps them satisfy and build respect for
organization as they feel they are part of business development. Learning and
development has been equivalent to financial benefit which every employee wants.
Employee also want to change with time and learn tackles for existing amendments, so
training and development program for employee can be seen as the good practice to
retain employee and keep them satisfy in organization which finally leads to improvise
performance that reaches to organization’s goal.
In Layman’s point of view they believed that many organizations has been adapting
training for their employees because now non-violence way i.e. knowledge is only way to
be competitive in this competition. From the period of 1900-1950 it was found that
human’s knowledge has doubled and after that it is doubling every 5 to 8 years.
Knowledge is becoming obsolete so quickly that one should learn and research the thing
every 2 to 3 years to keep them updated. Also, the organizations usually do invest 3to 5
% of their annual revenue in training and development of employee. Training and
educating employees not only help in learning changing culture of organization or
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business development but also helps in changing attitude, changing management ideas,
and learn in change of market and how these market changes make changes in the
organization. Training employees also help to let them know how they are important to
management and company how much they are undertaken seriously and make them
updated with new things in new world, it can be described with in an famous example in
which one as, ‘When and employer was asked if an employee of his make him suffer loss
of 600 million dollar, will he fire that staff? And reply was he will not fire that staff
because he do not want to lose/ or afford the staff who lose 600 million dollar for he
could not hire same experience of mistake from other new employees.
The basic research of the case studies were collected at Hyatt Regency Katmandu is a
luxury 5 star city resort hotel situated 10 km from the city center of Katmandu, Nepal, on
the road to Bouddhanath Stupa-the most holy of Tibetan Buddhists shrines outside Tibet.
The hotel is 4 km from Tribhuvan International Airport and very close to the business
district and shopping areas. The Boudhanath Stupa is within ten minutes walking from
the hotel. The hotel is also host to club oasis spa, a sanctuary of clam in Katmandu,
Nepal. It is developed by Tarragon regency hotels limited, Hyatt regency Katmandu is a
distinct mark of fine architecture and craftsmanship. The property houses four world
class outlets with banqueting areas of 13630ft/1266 m with the city’s most sophisticated
and technologically advanced conference and meeting facilities. So the picture of Hyatt
Regency Kathmandu 5 star location at Boudhanath, Kathmandu Nepal is mentioned at
last page (Annex 3).
Hyatt History
Hyatt history says that Hyatt Corporation opened its first hotel on September 27, 1957.
Hyatt’s first property at Los Angeles international airport was originally named Hyatt
house. The owner of Hyatt house was a local entrepreneur by the name of Hyatt R. von
Dehn. Hyatt hotels expanded aggressively along the west coast during the next decade.
However, it wasn’t until 1967, when Hyatt Corporation opened the world’s first atrium
hotels that the Hyatt name became known worldwide. The hotel’s 21 story atrium tower
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lobby and dramatic departure from traditional hotel architecture changed the course of the
lodging industry. The challenge to hotel architects was no longer to eliminate extra space,
rather to create grand, wide-open public spaces.
By 1969, there were 13 Hyatt regency hotels in the United States. That year, a subsidiary
of the newly formed Hyatt international corporation opened the first international hotel,
the Hyatt regency Hong Kong.
Hyatt regency hotels are the core brand of Hyatt hotels and resort, offering guests
opportunities to broaden their horizons and rejuvenate. Lobbies and rooms are designed
to reflect the best of the local cultures, the food and beverage outlets are inventive, and
exceptional technology, meeting, and fitness facilities are available. The grand Hyatt and
park Hyatt brands were introduced in 1980 to further identify and market the diverse
types of Hyatt hotels and resorts worldwide. Grand Hyatt hotels serve culturally rich
destination that attracts leisure and business travelers as well as large scale meeting and
conventions. The hotels, reflecting a grand scale and refinement, include features such as
state of the art technology, sophisticated business and leisure facilities, banquets and
conference facilities of world class standard, and specialized programs that cater to
discriminating business and vacation guests.
Park Hyatt hotels are the company’s smaller, luxury hotels designed to cater to the
discriminating individual traveler seeking the privacy, personalized service and elegance
of a small European hotel. They offer a sense of sanctuary and luxury. In addition to state
of the art technology, Park Hyatt hotels offer exceptional food and beverage facilities,
intimate, understand surroundings, and 24-hour personalized service.
Since the opening of Hyatt regency Maui in 1980, Hyatt hotels and resorts has become as
a leader in the creation and operation of dramatic luxury resorts as well. These include,
for example, Hyatt regency Kauai in Hawaii; Hyatt regency la manga in southern
Spain; bail Hyatt and grand Hyatt Bali in Indonesia; Hyatt regency Cheju on the
southern coast of Korea; Hyatt regency sanctuary cove and Hyatt regency Coolum
spa and resorts in Australia’s Queensland state; Hyatt regency gaum in Micronesia;
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Hyatt regency Thessaloniki in Greece, Hyatt regency Katmandu, Nepal and Hyatt
regency hau hin in Thailand.
Today, Hyatt hotels and resorts specialize in deluxe hotels with meeting facilities and
special services for the business traveler, operates hotels in major and secondary cities,
airport locations, and leading resorts areas throughout the world. In many cities Hyatt
hotels and resort has made a significant contribution to revitalizing the area and spurring
business and population growth .with the new hotels under developments, Hyatt
International Corporation will be creating more than 20000 job opportunities throughout
the world. Hyatt hotels and resorts have a reputation not only for their physical
distinctiveness, incorporating local art and design but also for the amenities and services
provided. These special services include Hyatt gold passports, Hyatt renowned
recognition and award program for the frequent traveler; regency club and grand club,
VIP concierge floors; complimentary morning newspaper; specialty restaurants; and
custom catering.
Training in The Hyatt Regency doesn’t carry its own history but as soon as company was
established its main motto was to be better than competition and to be a unique server in
the market in terms of serving the guest and in terms of serving employee. It is
worldwide known for the commitment it has contributed to the guest and its human
resources. To get their employee learn more and get more adapted with changes various
kinds of training are adhered. It gives training to employee on periodic basis on important
topics. So every 365 days is also considered as recognizing employee day as employee
become part of the company for completion of one year of successful working with the
company. In this day, everyone who has contributed to the company for one year will be
certified and officially recognized as the part of The Hyatt Regency Company.
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Customers buy the products and use services by paying money and that product and
services should fulfill their requirements of the customers. Talking about the hospitality
industries, if there's any place where customers are likely to be paying attention to the
type of service they receive, it's within the hospitality industry. From restaurants to hotels
and everything in between, your job as a hospitality service provider is to maintain
customer happiness and satisfaction. Gone are the days when customers were happy just
receiving “please” and “thank you” or getting service with a smile. Although those go
into the recipe for proper etiquette, it's just not enough. Satisfied customers are looking
for a memorable experience and dynamic service where it counts. From receiving quick
service to bending the standard practices, such as extending a guest check-out in a hotel
or customizing a menu item in a restaurant. Customers want to feel as if their business is
appreciated. To be on the receiving end of customer’s satisfactory ratings in surveys and
among their network, anticipate their needs and be able to have your staff deliver
accordingly. One key factor in keeping your guests engaged and coming back is to
deliver as you promise. In order to be successful in the market it is not sufficient to attract
new customers managers must concentrate on retaining existing customers implementing
effective policies of customer satisfaction and loyalty. In hotel industry customer
satisfaction is largely hooked upon service quality.
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Similarly, employee who works as a trainer are sometimes made to work beyond their
ability and capacity. Since, the organization will be benefitted in cost as they don't need
to pay the employee; they make unfair advantage and will let the trainer work overtime
without or with less time for leisure.
Hence, the employees are discouraged working in hospitality field in their future
perspective as result of stress, depression, insecurity and hard times faced during the
training period.
Furthermore, the trainers are for short period of time so once they get rid of working in
that place they can spread worse rumors about the internal/external working environment
of the place which will contribute to have negative effect on the goodwill of the
organizations
So this problem statement is also chosen to find out the reasons why the employees are
not able to satisfy the customer even after receiving the training and requirements.
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through the data collected for their own uses and also for making certain decision. The
main objectives of the study are as follows:
1. State of employee performance and training program in The Hyatt Regency Hotel.
So above listed objectives were like a pathway for the research to make the research stick
to track and make the research more concise and precise.
In Hyatt Regency Hotel for the staff training was taken as an important part so every
couple of months the Human resources trainer take a class for the both employee and
trainer for the future performance. During the training period, the researcher learned
about the beliefs, practices and behaviors that best represents working at Hyatt
International. The culture characteristics are what have made the researcher successful to
date. The staffs of the hotels greet the guests warmly, by making eye contact and using
their name when it is possible. They take ownership of every guest request and complaint
and resolve them courteously and promptly, only saying no when necessary. The hotel
graciously acknowledges the thanks and appreciation expressed by the guests. Also,
ensure that guest is escorted rather than pointing out direction. The staffs answer the
telephone within three rings, with a smile in the voice, and always thank the guest for
holding. Treat the customers (guest, owners and each other) with warmth and respect,
Say goodbye warmly to the departing guests, and let them know that the hotel look
forward welcoming back them.
Training basically means to develop each other’s skills and knowledge that relate to
specific competencies. It improves one’s capability, productivity and performance.
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During the training period, the researcher came to know the importance of training for the
good performance. Enhancing the employee performance can be done in various ways.
This includes:
1.5 Limitations
This study is limited in Hyatt Regency Hotel the specific area of Boudhanath,
Kathmandu, Nepal so the findings might not be generalized with other areas. To get
through its aim, few participants and key informants were selected mostly purposively
and its context was studied with certain period of time. Thus, it may not provide detail
information about their status and strategies of long span of time.
Since everything in the world is not perfect there was also some limitation while
conducting the research the main limitation of the study was lack of time. Research was
limited in time as to collect necessary information time was never enough because of
duty schedule of the individual with whom information was to be collected. Also for the
sample individual who were chosen due to working hours of the participants and
researcher time of research collection were the main difficulties. The sampling size was
restricted to only limited number of employees. The answers received from the limited
number of employees could not be generalized with the whole population of area of
study. Though sufficient time was allocated to conduct the research but from the starting
time management has always been great challenge as participant and researcher time was
difficult to manage to collect accurate information from the participants.
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These challenges remained as limitation while conducting research throughout. With
such problems ahead research was conducted taking care of time and selecting
appropriate participants who really could make this research’s result more fruitful.
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CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
The Hyatt Regency Hotel Company worldwide not only believes in providing excellence
service and satisfaction from the guest but also cares about employee development and
satisfaction of employee. So do in The Hyatt Regency Nepal, they believe in providing
knowledge of hotel and company through different kind of training programs and in best
possible ways.
The company motive and philosophy is to be the best and forward in terms of guest
satisfaction which is achieved through quality service, problem solving through guest
engagement whenever and wherever possible that comes genuinely from one’s heart.
Even for fresh starters be it fresh trainee or employees all are welcome with two days of
orientation in which hotel culture, rules, regulation, standards and expected behavior are
discussed by management and guidance team.
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Training in F&B in the Hyatt Regency
Being All Day Dinning it took the responsibility of training employees and trainees by
giving training on certain topic as:
7. Menu Knowledge
8. Handling cutleries
In Room Dining
In Room Dining is 24 hrs operating Food and Beverage department which serves limited
number of food and beverage to room and villas. In room dining located at the back of
house but responsible for in charge of standard delivery of food to in house guest so that
they can enjoy relief meal in their warm environment. In Room Dining involves
following as their training component:
2. Beverage promotion
3. Guest engagement
4. Problem handling
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5. Food and Beverage Knowledge
Banquet Operation
Banquet is function rooms which provides place for guest’s to arrange meeting, host
wedding and various events. One of the best revenue contributing to Food and Beverage
department as whole banquet requires to skill their employee’s in order to have smooth
functions of events being organized in hotel. Banquet function room holds responsibility
of handling different functions in hotel for which they need to train their trainee and
employee to conduct each and every event smoothly and as per hotel’s standard. Banquet
holds following training programs for its employee:
5. Safety training
7. Wine training.
Food safety training teaches on the issue of handling of different category of foods as
cold, hot, raw etc. Food safety training also discusses on HACCP and how we deal with
every step of possible hazards that can occur while handling or transferring food. Every
employee of Food and beverage teams are given training on food safety because standard
has to be maintained side by side taking care of guest’s health as well.
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The researcher wants to briefly explain about the training in hospitality industry by skills
and experiences during the training period in detail. Hospitality industry is a very high
standard organization with huge investments and huge standard of procedures. Every
hospitality industries motto is to provide a very good customer satisfaction in order to
make balance on their business. So they need every staff working there to follow up same
standard and procedures, for this training are required. All the staffs of hospitality
organization are trained by the Professional Training Officer to set up the hotel standard.
In the training everything is taught theoretically and practically to the employee to
balance the standard. They are introduced the organization, introduced the history of
organization and also introduced the future plans of the organization so that staff can
work accordingly. They are taught everything by doing different training activities like
doing the role-plays, lectures, management games.
So the term ‘training’ indicates the process involved in improving the skills and abilities
of the employees to perform specific jobs. Training helps in updating old talents and
developing new ones. Without training the employee are in raw form so training helps the
employee to acquire the necessary skills and develop mentally and intellectually.
Successful candidates placed on the jobs need training to perform their duties effectively.
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current workforce. Improving both organizational success and team performance through
cross-training is a leadership tool supervisor and managers often overlook. The benefits
of cross-training could possibly outweigh other methods that employers use to enhance
team performance. Shifting an organization’s focus from providing training to providing
improved performance is difficult to achieve. It requires a change in the thinking. The
researcher believes this new approach should motivate the staffs to make sure about the
training provision is in tip-top shape and is giving people what they want improved work
performance.
It's clear from the above ideas that it will mean harder work for the researcher, but then
that seems to be true of every industry at the moment.
Bentham says that the revisions made in (1995) to the Government wide performance
appraisal and awards regulations support sound management principles. Great care was
taken to ensure that the requirements those regulations establish would complement and
not conflict with the kinds of activities and actions practiced in effective organizations as
a matter of course. Performance management is the systematic process by which an
agency involves its employees, as individuals and members of a group, in improving
organizational effectiveness in the accomplishment of agency mission and goals.
Barbara Moses (1999) states that, “today, job security is dead and loyalty to the
organization in the tradition sense has died along with it”. Employee can be no longer
being abounded with incentives that are provided on the basis of promotion or selling of
products. Employees have realized that developing themselves now will lead them to
better and secured future. Companies began realizing that they can challenge employees
with “lateral moves, skills development, job enrichment and special assignments”
(Moses, 1999). Then every company realized that developing employee and making them
learn more through lateral services and assigning them with challenging, new and special
tasks that need either individual or joint group knowledge. It is the role of companies to
provide opportunities, but individuals must take the initiative to utilize those
opportunities and position themselves for future career success (Garger, 1999).
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Organization in the competition always strives to be the best and be loyal to its customers
both internal customers (employees) and external customers (guest clients).
Organizations now like past is not only face loosing of revenue but now it also facing the
issues as downsizing, resignation of employees, retention of employee and satisfaction of
employees. Many organizations now are considering their human resource as the most
useful resource even in comparison to machinery. Employees now who are in managerial
level are not the only one who are considered the heroes of organization, employee even
starters are the hands of company upon which company’s reputation is held upon. Many
upscale organizations have numerous employees working under different sub
departments to run the whole organization. To let company run accepting changes in
society is another issue for companies for which they need to renovate physical properties
as well as physical manpower. Physical properties can be done spending good amount but
renovating employee with knowledge is great problem for companies as the diversity in
demographics, region, nature and culture needs to be taken care of. If not properly
addressed such needs of employee they can pop out of organization whenever they feel
they are not safe and could not grow within the organization. Organization should have
great concern on all these rising issues and queries which are directly and indirectly
related with employees.
Sometimes company achievement can also be judged in terms of how long they can
retain their employee and keep them satisfied, because satisfy employee results in more
productivity and more efficiency which is directly proportional to goals of organization.
The best possible way to retain employee and keeping them satisfy is to make them part
of company and make them feel homely and impart them with learning, education,
training and aware them how change in knowledge let in change of career and how these
education help them in future challenges to overcome them.
Learning process would become “more efficient, targeted and strategic than ever”.
Knowledge and information are moving faster than ever with the Internet and a business
cannot keep up in today’s world if its employees do not have access to it. Although
higher education is important to prepare people to work in business, they still need a new
set of skills by the time they start working (Gerbman, 2000). It is responsibility of
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employee to fulfill knowledge queries to their employee to pace up with changes in this
technological world. Even the information later in two days becomes too late to pass.
Employees today know more about Training and Development’s role in their careers and
are savvier about tapping into opportunities from their companies and also external
sources,” said Sandi Edwards, senior vice president for AMA Enterprise, in a prepared
statement about the trends.
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CHAPTER 3
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research is the detailed study of something in order to discover new facts, especially in a
university or scientific institution. It is also going beyond personal experience, thoughts,
feelings and opinions that do not refer to other sources of information.
Research methodology means what methods to apply, how to measure progress and what
constitutes success. The process used to collect information and data for the purpose of
making business decisions. The methodology includes publication research, observation,
interviews, surveys and other research techniques, and could include both present and
historical information.
The primary purpose of this research is to know about the opinion of Training as means
of enhancing employee performance. This study will be conducted by generating primary
as well as secondary information.
Employee performance will be consulted for information. The researcher will be using
qualitative methods for the data collection. The researcher focuses on the changes that are
being made by the influence of employee performance.
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questionnaires, group discussions, interviews, random sampling etc. It goes further than
exploratory research because its goal is to find the reasons behind a theory or
phenomenon. It attempts to uncover the relationships between the reason for something
and its chain effects. It builds on explanatory and qualitative research and goes on to
identify the reasons for something that occurs. It looks for causes and reasons. For
example, a descriptive research may discover that 10 percent of the employees do not
attend training programs, whereas the explanatory research is more interested in learning
why the employees do not attend training programs.
Explanatory research is a research which is done for a problem that has not been clearly
defined. It helps determine the best research design, data collection method and selection
of subjects. It often relies on secondary research such as reviewing available literature or
data, or qualitative approaches such as informal discussions with consumers, employees,
management or competitors and more formal approaches through in-depth interviews,
focus groups, projective methods, case studies or pilot studies.
Located close to the airport and city center, Hyatt Regency Kathmandu offers
international standards of service and accommodation. The hotel also offers
comprehensive conference and banqueting facilities.
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3.3 Universe and Sampling
The researcher will collect the Employee working around Kathmandu area. Inside Hyatt
hotel among them 375 people researcher will be selected by 30 employees as an
interview from each department. Observation will be conducted to them regarding
research topic. And the information by observation they will be considered as data for
research.
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Since qualitative research help to evolve hypothesis and problem statement and retrieve
required literature review and quantitative research help to evaluate evolved hypothesis
and information, qualitative and quantitative data collection method is undergone for this
research. For the data collection I have choose the qualitative method followed to collect
data is briefly described below.
Qualitative method
This research also includes qualitative research to learn insights and in-depth view of
people regarding given scene or understanding of human behavior. This method let’s to
find answer of how and why questions. This approach helps generalize the information
collected to large population from small group of sample.
This research method help further in analyzing of data in more broader way, describing
facts analyzing facts, introducing problems and concluding with possible solutions and so
on. However, disadvantage of this method is that it creates biasness however through
proper communication and proper accompaniment will help researcher data from various
planned sources help to get a good form of conclusion.
This data collection conducted on the topic “Training as a means to enhance employee
performance” Was analyzed from the questionnaire that was provided to the respondents
who were selected from the Food and Beverage department of Hyatt Regency
Kathmandu.
The main techniques of my data collection are:
Duration of Work
Positions
Opinions from the staffs and self analysation
Fulfillment of Priorities
Opinions Regarding Training in Hyatt Regency Hotel.
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issues were handled sensitively and carefully. The researcher did not steal others idea. If
the idea or concept needed to be copied, it was given a due respect by providing source.
Fact things are being mentioned in the report. The researcher had fully disclosed identity
and purpose of research and taken permission from people while interviewing and even
had put the names confidential when required. The researcher did not force to give
interviews.
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CHAPTER 4
Research Data and Findings
An observation is the primary source of data collection, researcher on date 7thof Oct 2014
made a thorough and keen observation of the physical area, activities and environment of
the Hyatt Regency Hotel. From the first day of joining Hyatt Regency Kathmandu
researcher got an opportunity to work in functional department (i.e. Food and Beverage
Service) for 6th month trainings. The present training was provided with free breakfast,
lunch and drop facilities for the evening shift, locker facilities, company pen, paper,
separate desk to work, opera and Micros system username and password to do all the
functional work.
7th Oct 2014, Sunday, The weather was favorable that day. It was neither too cold nor too
hot. So, the researcher thought it would be perfect day for her observation even the
occupancy of hotel were 50% so researcher can ask many questions and find more
information from her colleague. Like regular schedule researcher woke up at 5:00am and
hurried to leave hotel. After grooming researcher left Hotel and have to be in 6.00am in
the cafeteria. By 5:55am researcher reached in cafe and briefing started by 6:10am by our
Assistance manager Ms. Sunita Basnet. She explained all about their duty and
responsibility of the day. She allocated the researcher’s duty as a training hostess for a
couple of week which researcher has to learn from her senior employee Ms.Binu Gurung.
Comparing to other colleague the task is very easy but was lack of confident and much
nervous too. The things are that during that month the occupancy percent is in average
range. So, the researcher was lucky to learn many new things and observe more from the
beginning of the training. Researcher task was just to stand outside the hostess desk and
greet guest with smiling face according to time by welcoming the guest at cafe by caring
flash report of the day with food and drinks menu and taking them to table with short
conversation like Sir, would you like to choose the A la carte’ or Buffet by presenting
menu to guest and saying may I know your room number by knowing guest room
number researcher can easily identify staying plan through the Micro system either BB,
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MAP, AP, EP or walk in so that guest can pay according to plan mode. After leaving
guest from the cafe by observing guest again farewell greet by saying thank you sir for
dinning with us hope to see you again. As being a hostess researcher have observed that
its important in F&B department as a GSO were as Guest Service Officer must have lots
of responsibility about outlet like must observe guest status daily like VIP guests from the
long staying guest, walk In etc. At the beginning it was very difficult for me 12hours in
heel shoes to stand inside restaurant and handle guest. Cafeteria is the main outlet of
Hyatt Regency hotel so all time is open as an all-day dinning with 24hrs room service. So
there is not fixed time to go home for the training minimum 12hrs and maximum 16 hrs
we have to work. So in that day the total cover was just58% not so high. By observing all
this researcher gave the hostess handover related morning shift activities to evening shift
Hostess Ms. Ranjita Thapa. So researcher inform evening shift manager Mr.Raju Karki
related the checkout it was about to be6:00pm even researcher changed uniform take a
shower for15.00minutes and researcher went back to home. Researcher had dinner with
family and since researcher was very tired, researcher slept early. During the researcher’s
training period it was regular activities but researcher took it as researcher observation
day.
An observation is the main primary source of data collection from the observation what
researcher notice is lots of information about Hotel property like as.
Hyatt Vision
The hotel aims to be known as the first choice for guest, colleagues, straight from the
heart.
Hyatt Mission
The hotel aims to delight guest every time by creating engaging experiences straight from
the heart.
Hyatt values
A primary focus for the Hyatt regency Kathmandu is to impart the core values to each
and every employee. These include like:
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Smile
Speak first and last
Pay attention to details
Do the right things.
Resolve guest issues promptly
4.2 Interview with Human resources trainer’s officer at Hyatt Regency Hotel
For the research of the data finding, the researcher have choose the primary functions by
taking short interview on 21stNovember 2015 with HR training officer Ms. Sashila Joshi
to get experiment about the training as enhance of employee performance. The interview
was taken in duty hours within a short period of time. So, the researcher got an
opportunity to ask some questions and related answer with Ms. Sashila.
Firstly she described the researcher about herself and according to Ms. Sashila, she was
graduated from KMC and has been working since 5 years of experience at Hyatt Hotel.
At the beginning she was the secretary of Mr. Suresh Giri “Director of F&B Department”
so after 2 years she was transferred to HRD as a trainer’s officer.
Researcher interview was going smoothly with her and researcher asked the 1st questions,
How does HRM affect all manager? According to Miss Sashila she told researcher that
HRM affect all managers because human resources is important in the work place.
Organization today’s are transformed into leading productive companies based on the
decision made by human resources. The 2nd question was What are the major process to
handle the employee? According to Miss Sashila she answered, the major process to
handle the employee are to give clear, behavior feedback and being consistent, work
through the company process manage by our self talk. The 3rd questions, How the
training opportunity communicated to employees? She explained that through training,
employees are able to see their future in achieving corporate goals. And the final question
that researcher asked with HR trainer was How can manager help to prevent work place
violence? Miss Sashila explained the researcher by saying that manager help to prevent
work place violence by providing training to all employees about the policy and be sure
that they understand that all claims of workplace violence will be investigated. So Hyatt
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hotel training has become vital in the hotel hospitality industry to attain a complete
advantage and also for survey. She told the researcher that as a training officer it’s her
duty and responsibility to handle all the employees’ performance from the entire
department at hotel. Even she gave the details saying that training opportunity
communicated to employees by major processer like as given below.
It includes determining what task are to be done, who is to do grouped, who report to
whom, and where decision are to be made.
It includes motivating employees, directing the activities of other, selecting the most
effective communication channel, and resolving conflicts.
Employee performance needs to be evaluated based as such measures as how they behave
or act on criteria such as effort, teamwork, friendliness and rather than simply on the
measurement outcomes as they achieve.
Management wants employees to give good service, it has to reward good service and it
need to make pay and promotions.
So this was the researcher’s first interview with HR training officer Ms. Sashila Joshi for
my research data collection on training as an enhancing employee performance.
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With the concise information collected with questionnaire made and asked with the
participants of the research following are the analyzed form of information which was
found. Each and every information are supported. In the Hyatt hotel after taking short
interview with HR trainer it was researcher second interview with the employees.
In Hyatt hotel recently the total number of employees is 375 who are currently working
in Hyatt property in different department. By probability sampling through the scientific
way, the researcher chose 30 people among the 375 people from the different department
as focus groups discussion and the participants were from the HK department, F&B
department, F&O department, Productions department, sales and marketing department,
engineering department, laundry department, HR department, Security department and
gardener people. Note taker, observation and moderator were me researcher self during
my interview to collection all data.
During the interview, the researcher mostly focused in group discussion with Hyatt
employees who had different perception. Some were satisfied whereas some were still
dissatisfied related working environment and their experiences in training policy in Hyatt
Regency. So some of the major questions and answer that researcher have found during
interview with employees that researcher have mentioned at Appendix page as a survey
questionnaire.
The above table and the figure show that, there are 21 numbers of respondents who are
male and 9 number of are female.
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Fig 4.3 Gender of the respondents
20
No. of respondents
15
10
0
Male Female
Genders 21 9
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Source: Field visit, 2015
Above table mentioned that, according to the researcher there were 4 numbers of
respondents whose age was below 20, 15 numbers of respondents whose age was 20-30
and 11 numbers of respondents whose age was above 30.
13%
37%
50%
30
Captain 26.67%
Supervisor 16.67%
Assistant Manager 10%
Manager 10%
Total 100%
Source: Field visit, 2015
Above mentioned table represents that there were 36.67% of Trainees i.e. 11, 26.67% of
Captains i.e. 8, 16.67% of Supervisor i.e. 5, 10% of Assistant Managers i.e. 3 and 10% of
Managers i.e. 3.
10%
10%
36%
17%
27%
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Table 4.6 Development of training classes
Above table measures the satisfaction of employee with training class provided by hotel.
Table represents number of respondents and their responses. Below is graphical form of
this table with brief description.
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Yes No
Development of training
17 13
classes
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Above table presents the satisfaction of respondent corresponding to the question of
training plans provided by the hotel to employee. X-axis shows the number of
respondents in terms of percentage and Y-axis shows the development of training classes.
17 respondents said that the hotel provides the training classes and 13 said the hotel does
not provide the training classes.
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Benefits of training
16
No. of respondents 14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Change
Better Improve labor
management
communication relation
system
Benefits of training 11 14 5
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Fig 4.8 Determination of Training
Determination of training
Management audit Task analysis Performance analysis Training needs survey
16% 16%
24%
44%
Above table and figures represents that 16% of respondents said management audit,
23.33% of respondents said task analysis, 43.33 said performance analysis and 16% said
training needs survey. Everyone needs some kind of training by professional to do the
work flawless and with great efficiency. If employees are given some task and they don’t
know purpose of doing it and the proper way of doing it they will avoid the work rather
than doing it sincerely.
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Importance of training in
achieving organizational goal Frequency Percentage
Yes 30 100%
No 0 0%
Total 30 100%
Source: Field visit, 2015
100%
Percentage
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Yes No
Percentage 100% 0%
The above table and figure shows that the respondents who think that the training is
important in employee performance are 100%. The opinions collected from the
respondents indicate that the employees give importance to the training program and
think that the training program helps in employee performance and customer satisfaction
as well. The training plays a very important role in achieving the goal of the organization.
Every employee should have the awareness of importance of training in order to develop
themselves and achieve their personal and organizational goal. The employees who do
not think training is important will not be able to develop themselves and move ahead in
their career.
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Table 4.10 Facilities provided by the hotel
33% 30%
37%
The reason behind asking the respondents about the contribution that they think they
provide to the organization is to analyze the motivation of the respondents for working.
This topic can be further explained with the help of the table and figure below:
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Level of contribution Frequency Percentage
Level 1: Not supportive 0 0%
Level 2: Satisfactory 16 53.33%
Level 3: Supportive 7 23.33%%
Level 4: Highly Supportive 7 23.33%
Total 30 100%
Source: Field visit, 2015
Level of contribution
1st Qtr 2nd Qtr 3rd Qtr 4th Qtr
9%
10%
23% 58%
The above table and figure shows that the respondents whose level of contribution to the
organization in level 1 is 0%, level 2 is 23%, level 3 is 10% and level 4 is also 59%.
According to the opinion from the respondents it indicates that the employee contribution to their
work is Supportive due to the motivation they received from the training program provided to
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them. The higher the motivation, higher will be the level of contribution to the organization and
the higher will be the chance of achieving the goal and satisfy customer. The organization should
motivate the employees to increase the level of contribution that they provide in the organization.
The motivation plays a very important role in developing the employee, increasing the level of
contribution and achieving the personal and organizational goal. The organization should identify
how the employees can be motivated and apply the ways through which the employees get
motivated.
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Chapter 5
Data Analysis
This data analysis conducted on the topic “Training as a means to enhance employee
performance” was analyzed from the questionnaire that was provided to the respondents
who were selected from the F&B department. The data represents the data that was
collected from the questionnaires and are more elaborated and explained.
Talking about the analysis of data, in Hyatt Regency Kathmandu at first researcher would
like to talk something about the training provided to staff plays a vital role to improve
employee performance and achieve the goal of the hotel. Consulting with many staffs of
Hyatt they responded that the training has helped them to enhance their personal and self-
skills and also customer satisfaction. The above mentioned data in data presentation is
about several trainings provided by Hyatt Regency to achieve the goal of hotel and also
to achieve the higher customer satisfaction. Researcher interacted with many staffs in
Hyatt Regency of several departments like Housekeeping, Front Office, F&B Department
and also the security department. Many staffs of related department responded that
training has helped them to satisfy employee by providing them quality and standard
service and also it has improved their self-skills and personal techniques of working in
their departments.
Every data elaborated above are interrelated and interconnected because main aim of
connecting this question was to conclude the fact that satisfaction of employee is
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regained by the hotel and how strong hotel stand itself to keep its each and every
employee satisfied and make them grow with company with any means of training,
learning, development, coaching lessons and so on.
All the questions are made in structure way which starts with indirect ones and finally
ends with what research needs. More than half of employees are really positive towards
the hotel training and development program for them is important whereas there is
negative replies as well which will be discussed in further topics. As stated in problem of
statement the main aim is more diverted into finding employee satisfaction and whether it
is directed by training and development programs. In average responds from the
employees as well are more positive and till now employee development and training
programs for employee affects employee positively can be thought.
Some questions are open ended which are not listed above. Those questionnaires were
given to let participant express their view from open window where they can write
problems and solutions which they have in them which could be beneficial for both
employee and employer.
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Chapter 6
6.1 Summary
This chapter includes a summary of the major contents of the study and reaches a
conclusion of what is found on the basis of the collected data and the researcher’s own
personal observation and impression. Finally some recommendations are made so that it
would be helpful in finding the solution to the issues and problems.
In the hospitality industry where the number of hotels and other hospitality outlets are
increasing day by day the competition is very tough in order to survive in the industry.
Employee development training program is a very essential factor for any organization to
compete against the competition and helps to achieve the goals of the organization. In
this modern competitive world if the organization does not give importance to employee
training and development, then the organization will move straight backward towards
failure instead of moving forward towards success. Employee development training has
become a very essential management tool.
There was the diversity of opinion of different individual. Each individual has their own
point of view but the aggregate result or response was positive. It seems that the
organization is running towards correct ways. It is not like there will be 100% satisfaction
in everything but company tries its best get the way and having almost positive result is
going ahead to its goal. The reason and brief description of this information was already
explained in above chapter
As this dissertation is based on the different aspects such as the review of the literature of
author, the survey questionnaire, the open questions in survey and the general knowledge
during the internship period that the researcher experienced and the information that
strive from the human resource management personnel’s. The training factors provided
by the human resource are incredible according to the participants who are currently
working in the Hyatt Regency Kathmandu. They all agreed on the base of training they
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got have enhanced their product knowledge, upgrade skills in adopting and using the
existing technologies in work place and platform to grow themselves. With the
interaction of human resource and following the data the current internal turnover rate is
40% so that they have much more to do to convince the employee to continue with their
journey. Turnover rates increases due to the working environment, colleagues in
workplace, technologies, lack of product knowledge, personal issues or due to
competition.
So with the process of having information human resource provided the current updated
information so that it enhanced the dissertation to enhance more accurately and the
reasons behind them were already mentioned such as their own personal issues, one way
traffic i.e. should only listen to supervisors, training as means not practical, some of them
are not will to attend the training and so on. But, summarizing the result is positive and
that is the main achievement for the hotel. So training is the most important factor to
enhance the employee performance.
6.2 Conclusion
This research draws the facts regarding employee development and training programs
and how it matters to the organization to retain its employee. The Hyatt Regency is
famous for taking care of their employees apart from providing luxury service to guest.
The Hyatt Regency aims to develop themselves and employees by exploring themselves
with changing world by giving different kind of training by professional and providing
them modern material to tackle with changes in technology, information and so on. With
the research done the fact can be drawn and the fact is that the hotel still leads in
providing outstanding service to its guests and providing what it needs to be the best
employee to work in different situation.
The hotel considers giving sufficient training, listening to needs of employees giving
hands to employee when they need and providing them relief programs will make them
employee more loyal towards them. This research as well is more to know how training
and development program provided by the hotel actually works in retaining employees.
This research explains the overall matter on the same issue. To build this research
inductive method was employed i.e. to make this research effective literature review was
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undergone and studies was made in order to make this research more effective and more
realistic. Questionnaire was made and interview was conducted with different employee,
apart from this interview informal communication was also conducted to draw different
facts.
The information obtained was more positive from the respondents but yes there is some
back fall as well. More of respondents were in favor of topic that is yes training and
development do affect employee retention positively and some problems and issues that
were received will be discussed below.
Respondents were really encourage by the opportunities and learning materials provided,
they also believe they could earn more in other organization but the benefit they get from
The Hyatt Regency in terms of this learning environment is more than precious for them
to grow and develop in the competition. More of respondents were satisfied and even
stated their loyalty in future with the hotel, they owe some responsibility towards the
hotel and suggested some training program as well which could if added could add on
learning advantages to the employee as well. These training programs in short are: Wine
training including the standard serving methods, communication of management and
employees and so on.
They also stated they need some operational training and added some more ideas on their
own as well. These are as: they need training to use equipment more efficiently and more
effectively because new trainee and employee are new with the use of equipment which
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makes them part of accident. Employees also demanded for need for frequent cross
training between departments so that they can know more about different outlets which
will enhance their knowledge. They also said they require more training on beverage
because many of them lack their knowledge in terms of beverage so they lose the chance
of up selling beverage to guests. Every department has one employee assigned as learning
coach who is responsible for acting as teacher to new comers and new trainee to give
them information of product involved with hotel and departments. Employee in their
suggestion wants teach coach to be check by Human resource and other concerned
department they have complain that they don’t get anything from their learning coaches
as what the new comers expected.
This research also found out that Training and development programs has really helped
hotel to keep them unique in the world which had them lessen turnover and had
motivated employee lot to keep them loyal and give hand to them working for years.
However, reason as personal reasons may be relocation of habitat, getting married, family
bonding etc; competition providing increased benefit of allowance, money etc;
commencement of new hotel brands in and around Hainan Island because of its suitable
climate and area. These reasons are the challenges in the employee turnover however
hotel has really been able to keep them under average in terms of employee turnover.
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APPENDIX
Questionnaire
Annex 1:
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4. What are the benefits of training you got in Hyatt hotel?
a) Better communication
b) Improve labor relation
c) Change Management system
5. What are the determine training you needs in Hyatt hotel?
a) Management audit
b) Task analysis
c) Performance analysis
d) Training Needs Survey
7. Being an employee what are the facilities you got from Hyatt hotel?
a) Transportation
b) Locker facilities with uniform
c) Meal Items
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Annex 2:
Annex 3:
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