The weakest link? Product market strategies, skill and pay in the hotel industry

Lloyd, Caroline and Warhurst, Chris and Dutton, Eli (2013) The weakest link? Product market strategies, skill and pay in the hotel industry. Work, Employment and Society, 27 (2). pp. 254-271. ISSN 0950-0170

Abstract

There is a widely held assumption that product market strategies, skill and pay are linked. Supportive evidence is typically drawn from manufacturing and using quantitative analyses. Emergent research of the link in services is ambivalent and has methodological limitations. This article addresses this weakness. It compares the skills and pay of room attendants in upper and mid-market hotels using qualitative research. It finds that the link is weak, even decoupled. The findings suggest a reconceptualization is needed of the link in services and that interventions other than product market re-positioning are needed to deliver higher skills and better pay.

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Dutton, Eli ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4754-8845

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	48407
  Dates:	Date Event 2013 Published
  Keywords:	hotel industry , hospitality, marketing, product market strategies, Management. Industrial Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  Subjects:	Social Sciences > Industries. Land use. Labor > Management. Industrial Management
  Department:	Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	03 Jun 2014 14:51
  Last modified:	04 Jun 2021 02:09
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/48407