| While at the HR in Hospitality Conference last week in Las Vegas, we attended a panel discussion on HR Tips and Trends. The panel consisted of senior HR executives from 3 major hotel companies, the founder and managing partner of HCpartners and a professor from Cornell University. These five respected industry leaders provided innovative ideas and viable solutions for many of the challenges facing today's Human Resource professionals. Topics included the potential increase of the federal minimum wage, maintaining competitive wages with minimum budgets, performance reviews, engagement and job loyalty. Below are some of the top tips and trends from this session.
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Top Stories: Lodging & Gaming
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Hotel Chains Doing Away With The Minibar
The hotel minibar has been a staple in hotels for many years now but it seems that hotels and travelers are agreeing that the minibar is not in as high demand as it used to be. According to research from the PKF Hospitality Research, minibar sales have dropped 28 percent between 2007 and 2012, which is leading to big changes in the major hotel chains.
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Top Stories: Human Resources
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Give HR Departments More Authority
For all the focus organizations put on change and innovation, human-resource departments are often among their most conservative quarters. This is evident in the long-standing popularity of "best practices" that help replicate traditional power structures, and of "competency models" that play down the complex and context-dependent nature of managing and leading, and being recognized as doing so.
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Healthy Minds, Healthy Profits
Each year for the past nine years the American Psychological Association has bestowed four companies with its Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award, a recognition of those organizations that seem to best understand the importance of emotionally healthy employees, and factor it into their business model, both with concrete, measurable programs and a culture of caring that recognizes the value of addressing employee problems
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