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

Lloyd, Caroline ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2624-8031, Dutton, Eli and Warhurst, Chris 2013. The weakest link? Product market strategies, skill and pay in the hotel industry. Work, Employment and Society 27 (2) , pp. 254-271. 10.1177/0950017012460310

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Abstract

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.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE)
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
ISSN:	0950-0170
Date of Acceptance:	1 June 2012
Last Modified:	26 Oct 2022 07:37
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/125301

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