Sustainable Hotels as Learning Organisations: Innovative Approaches towards Employee Training
Authors: Marius Brazdauskas, Lina Gaigalaite.
Issue: 2015, Vol. 1
Abstract
Sustainability issues impact nearly all aspects of hotel operations. Sustainability-driven hotel programs and initiatives can provide a significant competitive advantage to the hotel industry and make a high contribution towards the implementation of global sustainable development goals. Therefore, effective and innovative employee training plays a key role in the design, adoption and promotion of hotel sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and practices. Furthermore, hotels that manage to engage into the process of building a learning organisation develop their high potential and organisational capacity to foster collective learning, develop new competitive ideas and promote both individual and organisational creativity and inventiveness for effective responsiveness to emerging business needs. This exploratory theoretical paper aims to address the key issues related towards building a learning organisation within the hotel industry setting. It outlines key factors and issues underlying employee training and learning possibilities. In addition, this paper contributes to the current scholarly debate about the importance of sustainability-oriented non-formal education within organisational settings.
Keywords: sustainable hotels, sustainability education, sustainability training, learning organisation.
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Authors: Marius Brazdauskas, Lina Gaigalaite.
Issue: 2015, Vol. 1
Abstract
Sustainability issues impact nearly all aspects of hotel operations. Sustainability-driven hotel programs and initiatives can provide a significant competitive advantage to the hotel industry and make a high contribution towards the implementation of global sustainable development goals. Therefore, effective and innovative employee training plays a key role in the design, adoption and promotion of hotel sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and practices. Furthermore, hotels that manage to engage into the process of building a learning organisation develop their high potential and organisational capacity to foster collective learning, develop new competitive ideas and promote both individual and organisational creativity and inventiveness for effective responsiveness to emerging business needs. This exploratory theoretical paper aims to address the key issues related towards building a learning organisation within the hotel industry setting. It outlines key factors and issues underlying employee training and learning possibilities. In addition, this paper contributes to the current scholarly debate about the importance of sustainability-oriented non-formal education within organisational settings.
Keywords: sustainable hotels, sustainability education, sustainability training, learning organisation.
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