Overview

The purpose of this book is to understand the state of the art total quality management process for the Hotel Industry and to develop a model of business excellence to help monitor and guide hoteliers in search of excellence. The objectives are as follows: To study the barriers and implementation of TQM in the hotel industry To determine the critical success factors to develop Business Excellence model for the hotel industry To validate the Business Excellence Model with relevant data To measure the performance of critical success factors and organisational performance To measure the strength of casual connections among critical success factors and business excellence To set up a Business Excellence Index and customer satisfaction index for the hotel Industry Professor Kanji, who is the Director of Kanji Quality Culture Ltd., is also Emeritus Professor of applied statistics at Sheffield Hallam University. He is also the founder editor of the two international journals namely, Journal of Applied Statistics and that of Total Quality Management. With a career spanning 38+ years in the field of statistics and quality, incorporating teaching, publishing journals and books, writing technical papers and presenting research findings around the world, Professor Kanji is an enthusiastic teacher, trainer, researcher and innovator. Having published more than 70 research papers and 15 books in Statistics and Total Quality Management, Professor Kanji is a very active fellow member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and a promoter of ASQ in the UK. He was appointed as Vice Chair of the International Chapter of the ASQ for Europe and the Middle East. In addition to presenting papers at other high profile international conferences he presents papers at the Annual ASQ Congress. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians and of the Royal Statistical Society, a Member of the International Statistical Institute and an Academician of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ). As a renowned teacher and consultant, his lectures have inspired audiences and individuals around the world and as Chairman of the EMPTQM group he has helped to develop a European Masters programme in Total quality management under the umbrella of EFQM. Professor Kanji has organised and chaired 8 World Congresses for Total quality Management, in the UK, Russia and Italy, Dubai and has been appointed by the European Commission to act as a technical expert for the development of the European Customer Satisfaction Index. Through his company, Kanji Quality Culture Ltd., he has introduced a Business Excellence Model to measure stakeholders' satisfaction within organisations. He has been appointed President of the European Society for Organisational Excellence (ESOE), Vice-President of the International Foundation for Customer Focus IFCF) and visiting professor at Leicester University. He has received (2002) Grant Medal from ASQ.

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Author:   Gopal K. Kanji
Publisher:   Wisdom House Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Wisdom House UK
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 14.00cm
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9781842900543

ISBN 10:   1842900544
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   01 March 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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