Category Archives: Managment issues

No heart for employees!

Today I like to write about one experience we had earlier this year with one particular hotel in a somehow remote area of Thailand. This hotel … frankly speaking … was and still is nightmare for guests and employees!

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Vision and Missions statements! – For What?

As hotelier and now as a consultant I have seen many visions and mission statements, and all look very similar somehow. I understand that logically there must be lots of similarities as nothing is more important for any business then … Continue reading

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Hotel Construction Companies, How much can you rely on them?

Many construction companies do NOT CARE AT ALL and will not tell you if your architectural designs are wrong – even they know! Continue reading

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Part 2 – Manager! -You got to be good, otherwise, just go home!

Sample: The managers never or seldom do what they preach! I have seen a manager issue a policy that no one can consume food in the office, tut then, the same day, the manager himself do it without any guilt. It is a very popular topic with employees that managers don’t do what they ask others to do. Continue reading

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Part 1: Dear Manager! You got to be good, otherwise, go home.

Many managers do not like to solve problem! They only listen QUIETLY, and dump the employees’ problem into the garbage Continue reading

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Nate-tra Dhevabanchachai in the news

I work like a buffalo Continue reading

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Service mind, Behaviour and how to be Excellent.

But their management hardly smiles and almost never greets staff first! Many times management not even responds to employees greeting Continue reading

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Hotel and Resort Management for Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia.

Several hotel management companies have approached Mai-BS (Thailand) to look out for potential hotel and resort properties in Laos, Myanmar, and Cambodia who are in need for professional management. Continue reading

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Some issues Thai hotel owners have with their managers!

Commission and leader is like “water and oil” in term of ethical practices! Continue reading

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Recruitment and Selection; A good system to study AND A bad style to avoid!

“we are a top 5-star hotel, we invested billions of Thai Baht! We want all our guests to be welcomed and serviced by smiling-face employees and not by “long-cold-still face” type of employee”!? Continue reading

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Some Human Resource Management (HRM)’s problems.

“A don’t care type” – Many HR managers are not a committed human being: he or she does not care of what happened within the organization Continue reading

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Top 10 issues with “Managing Family Style”!

As senior managers and decision makers, we all have the power to create “professionals” or we can choose to create just ‘family members” who are trained to following only traditions and other people. Continue reading

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A short thought about differences between “manager” and “leader”

People will not be happy to be there for the manager to manage if he or she lacks of leadership
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Some Greed in Green!

I do hope that soon there will be some organizations take initiative to be a true leader to react to the mentioned “over done -or-confusing green practices” and show example of real integrated green concept to the public.
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Does your organization succeed through employees’ suffering? – Thai version

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