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  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction. 5
  • Critical success factors and industry strategy for Hilton Hotel5
  • Swot analysis. 7
  • Strength. 7
  • Weaknesses. 7
  • Opportunity. 8
  • Threat8
  • Internal and external stakeholders considered in strategic plan. 9
  • Internal stakeholders. 9
  • External stakeholders. 9
  • Analysis of the company vision and mission statement10
  • Mission statement10
  • Vision. 10
  • Objectives. 11
  • Functional and operations objectives of the following departments. 11
  • Marketing department11
  • Increase sales. 12
  • Improve the product awareness. 12
  • Brand management12
  • Production department12
  • Offering of quality services. 12
  • Optimum utilization of resources. 13
  • Teamwork maintenance. 13
  • Human resource department13
  • Training. 13
  • Conducting research. 14
  • Performance management14
  • Finance department14
  • Risk management14
  • Effective coordination with other department15
  • Strategic planning method. 15
  • Product development strategies. 16
  • Benchmarking strategies. 16
  • Suitable competitive strategies. 16
  • Striving to be the low cost producer. 17
  • Product differentiation. 17
  • Communication strategies. 17
  • Open. 17
  • Inclusive. 18
  • Multichannel communication strategies. 18
  • Showing progress. 18
  • Barriers to effective strategy implementation. 19
  • Cultural barrier. 19
  • Organization barrier. 19
  • Psychological barriers. 19
  • Recommendation to deal with the barriers. 20
  • Conclusion. 20
  • Reference. 22
  • Introduction
  • Hilton hotel is a global chain of full service hotels and resort that is known as flagship brand of Hilton worldwide. In addition, the original company originated from Conrad Hilton but recently was owned by Hilton Worldwide. In 1927, Hilton opened its first hotel that encompasses cold running water and air conditioning in the public rooms. Hilton Hotels were the first coast-to-coast hotel chain of the United State in the year 1943. In 1948, it was the first hotel company to offer multi-hotel qualms. Previously there is about 530 Hilton branded hotels across the globe in about 78 countries across six continents. In addition, it has involved in purchasing medium sized hotel in 1970, but it has expanded its operations in UK. It is the largest lodging company in the whole world. Its customers include tourists and business travelers. In addition, tourists are categorized into low medium income category and high income groups. The high income tourist stays in the upscale luxury while low income may not afford them. Hilton Hotels offers diverse services that meets the need, amenities that are needed by the customer. The major achievement of Hilton Hotel is that it leads its competitive set in all operations. In addition, the company hotels and resorts products have the biggest growth pipeline. The plan of Hilton Hotel is that they will strive to create a consistently superior lodging. This will earn the loyalty of their customers by surpassing their expectations in anyway.
  • Critical success factors and industry strategy for Hilton Hotel

  • Critical analysis of the Relationship between the level of Customer Service and Customer Satisfaction in the Hospitality industry – a case study of Rydges Kensington, London.
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  • Table of Contents
  • Abstract4
  • Chapter 1. 5
  • 1.1 Introduction. 5
  • 1.2Aim.. 6
  • 1.3Objectives. 6
  • Chapter 2. 6
  • 2.0Literature Review.. 6
  • 2.1What do we mean by Customer Service?. 6
  • 2.2 Customer Satisfactions. 8
  • 2.2.1 Identifying Customer Expectations. 9
  • 2.2.2 Benefits of meeting customer Expectations. 11
  • 2.2.3 The challenges of meeting customer expectations. 12
  • 2.3 Customer Relationship Management (CRM)14
  • 2.4 Customer retention. 16
  • 2.5 Customer satisfaction and loyalty. 17
  • Chapter 3. 18
  • 3.1Aims and Methodology. 18
  • 3.2Research approach. 18
  • 3.3Research questions. 19
  • 3.4Research philosophy. 20
  • 3.4Sample/participant selection. 20
  • 3.5Data collection. 22
  • 3.5.1Reasons for incorporating questionnaires. 22
  • 3.5.2Limitations of questionnaires. 24
  • 3.6.1Reasons for incorporating interviews. 24
  • 3.6.2Limitations of incorporating interviews. 25
  • 3.7Secondary research. 26
  • 3.8Research approach and research philosophy. 27
  • 3.9Ethical issues considered during the process of data collection. 27
  • Chapter 3. 28
  • 3.0Company background/context28
  • Chapter 4. 29
  • 4.1Findings Findings from the staff questionnaire. 29
  • Results from the guest/customer questionnaire. 32
  • Chapter 5. 35
  • 5.Analysis And Discussions. 35
  • 5.1Staff feedback analysis. 35
  • Working environment standard and availability of working facility. 35
  • 5.1.2Staff training facility. 36
  • 5.1.3Employee development process. 37
  • 5.1.4Internal communication system.. 38
  • 5.1.4HR activities management and staff relation. 38
  • 5.1.5Technology and ability of employees to use facility. 40
  • 5.1.6Service satisfaction standard. 40
  • 5.2.2Professionalism and level of communication with customers. 41
  • 5.2.3Level of quality and service standard. 42
  • 5.2.3Food standard and price in accordance to quality. 43
  • 5.3 Discussion. 44
  • Conclusion. 49
  • References. 52


  • The paper is a study on the level of customer satisfaction in Rydges Kensington Hotel based on customer and employee feedback. The methodology incorporated in the study was surveys whereby the customers together with the employees presented their views on how the think the organization has maintained customer satisfaction as well as what can be improved in order to ensure that the organization meets the required level of customer satisfaction. The findings indicated that the customers and employees were not satisfied with the strategies that the management had incorporated in order to meet customer satisfaction. Majority indicated that the level of quality was too low. The customers also indicated that the prices of services were not consistent with the quality of products and services offered in the organization. The recommendations include the fact that employee motivation is essential in improving customer satisfaction as well as incorporating quality improvement techniques. The management also needs to focus on increasing the level of cleanliness to retain and attract more customers basing on the fact that it is an hospitality business.
  • Customer’s satisfaction is one of the key strategies that help various organizations to achieve their growth objective. Establishing ways of ensuring customers satisfaction requires the management determine the various customers’ expectation and at the same time maintain high level of professionalism. Employees of an organization play a critical in ensuring that the company meets the demand of the customers. Additionally, customer satisfaction requires the management of an organization to improve their customer’s relation strategies.
  • This research paper therefore analyzes some of the strategies that have been implemented by the management of the company to help ensure the customer satisfaction. This research paper adopts the qualitative date techniques in order to collect and analyze data. The interviewed was conducted from the employee to establish to various strategies that the management of the company had implemented in order to enhance customers satisfaction. The customers were also interviewed in order to establish their take on the various products that the company provided in the market. Involving the customers helped to establish whether they were satisfied with levels of products and services that the company provided in the market. The data that was collected is later analyzed in this paper to establish the extent to which the company provided their customers with quality products in the market. Moreover the research paper also presents some of the strategy that the human resource manager has implemented in order to enhance customers satisfaction. Finally this research papers presents some of the possible recommendations that can help the management of Rydges Kensington Hotel to improve on their customers’ satisfaction strategy.

  • Corporate Social Responsibility improves customer satisfaction
  • Introduction
  • Corporate social responsibility (CSR) remains an essential aspect that determines customer satisfaction with many of the businesses in the contemporary society incorporating the strategy as a competitive strategy. CSR not only remains an aspect of customer satisfaction but also an aspect that determines the customer retention plan since if the roles supporting corporate responsibility are executed I the appropriate manner. CSR has also proved to benefit many firms through enhancing customer good will as well as employee commitment. This explains the connection and the relation between the customer needs as well as the strategies that the company has incorporated to ensure that these needs are met in the most effective manner. To the organization or company, CSR is essential and functions as a key determinant of the requirements of the market and what it needs to address in order to ensure that the target group is satisfied with the efforts of the company to maintain and sustain them. Corporate social responsibility includes the key aspects of training customers on how to effectively use and enjoy the services of the company. This also includes ensuring that the employees as well as the other members of the organization clearly comprehend the needs of the customers. The financial sectors including institutions like banks have no alternative except to ensure that CSR has been met. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is becoming a trend with corporate, big and small, incorporating this activity in society.
  • Moreover the corporate social responsibility also has a global perspective where it is used to increase the reputation of the business through ensuring that the business carries out its activity in an open and transparent manner. The CRS also plays critical role in portraying the business as one of the leading in terms of offering innovative products in the market. It is also important to note that in most cases the CRS has a great impact on the company performance in the global market. CSR comes in where businesses take on the responsibility of taking care of problems that particular societies are facing. These actions go to show that businesses are concerned about societies and what goes on in these particular societies. However, the relatively new concept of CSR has not always been the case. In the past few decades there has been a noticeable disconnect between businesses and society. This disconnect has been able to negatively impact societies in which businesses operate. However, there are proponents that argue that a business is a business is a business. These people believe that the incorporation of society needs into any particular business is in essence a recipe for disaster. Such arguments have in essence implied that there exists a disconnect between society and business and that to some this disconnect is justified. The Barclays Bank United Kingdom has been a financial institution that has clearly observed the protocol of customer social responsibility and has seen the results despite of few hiccups here and there since none can completely be perfect in their strategies to focus on customer satisfaction. The paper includes a comprehensive review of the CSR application in the Barclays Bank United Kingdom.

  • Ethical Standards That UK Companies Should Follow When Providing Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Quality
  • The management of the company should ensure that they deliver high quality services in their corporate social responsibility. Maintaining high quality services can help to ensure that the business is able to attract new customers and at the same time improve on its reputation. Providing quality services in their corporate social responsibility can help the business to meet the expectation of the society. This is because in most cases the society expects the business to delivers quality services. In addition providing quality services can help to reduce the cost of engaging in various corporate social responsibilities through minimizing product wastage

  • Contemporary Moral Issues
  •             Consumerism is a policy that defines how consumers are to control the state of a market. Benjamin Barber states that consumerism affects the perspective buyers by transforming them into shoppers. The transformation has been destroying sovereignty causing a huge blow to the democracy of citizens. Consumerism causes the withdrawal of national autonomy on various important issues. The manner in which citizens can handle violence is affected by lack of national autonomy due to consumerism.

  • Marketing
  •             Integrated market communication especially for home healthcare services is a booming activity in nowadays market. This activity is serving various demographic groups that were not having marketing services before (Blakeman, 2007). There is a growing demand in healthcare firms for the key players to meet consumer’s expectations. Consumers have difficult moments in finding a reliable professional who can help in nursing their relative or colleagues. In order to retain a healthy care services for the consumers, many agencies are creating new online referral systems. The online systems are to help consumers attain the recommended healthcare services. Nowadays, an established firm offers counseling services to companies that offer healthcare services so that they can implement their market plans and achieve the intended goal (Blakeman, 2007).

  • Management
  •             Management is an essential obligation that helps an organization to achieve its main goals. In order for management to be effective, a competent manager accomplishes the objective of achieving organization’s goals (Daft & Marcic, 2010). Managers’ helps in making sure that there are proper methods of using resources of a typical organization. Managers of a typical organization have the task of coaching and assisting employees to establish suitable goals. The manager’s main task in an organization is to check that employees utilize resources in an appropriate manner. In order for a manager to carry out managerial tasks in an effective way, it requires employing important roles and possessing various considerable traits.

  • Decisions in Paradise Part 3
  •             Various factors affect the well being of Kava Island. It will be a challenging experience to develop a position that is successful in an international business setting at Kava. More work is required in order to achieve the targeted goals of developing an established organization with great market structure in Kava. However, WALMART organization is committed in making sure that it has established itself in Kava and has helped in changing the lives of people. Though various decisions have been made concerning the issue of Kava, there are factors that affect their implementation, which include the following;

  • What is Strategy?
  • First Definition
  •             Strategy is the method that the management of an organization uses in order to make great profits. Strategy provides the mechanism of which an organization uses in order to be successful (Sampson, 2006). Retrieved from an academic source that is written by Guy Sampson.
  • Second Definition
  •             Strategy is the plan that the management of an organization uses to accomplish specific outlined goals (Kourdi, 2009). Retrieved from an academic source that is written by Jeremy Kourdi.

  • Big Y should dump the self-service checkout line
  •             The idea made by the Big Y supermarket chain to eliminate self-checkout lines is a brilliant one. The decision is of advantage to the supermarket because the move will gradually reduce the cost of incurring losses. The system affects marketing of goods resulting to more losses in the supermarket. Customers have to request for assistance from the staff for various issues and this results to wastage of time. The issues that mostly require assistance include how to use bar codes & coupons of the supermarket. In addition, self-service lanes result to clogging of customers when there is a payment problem (Stern 219).

  • Personalization
  •             Marketing is an essential activity for SIM University (UniSIM). Through marketing itself, the university is able to communicate various values to customers. Nowadays, marketing is ever changing in order to meet the needs of every organization. In order for UniSIM to enhance its brand quality, the university ought to embrace personalization as one of the significant concepts in the holistic market. Personalization refers getting to customers through various means of media and the newly advance social sites located on the Internet (Krafft & Hesse, 2007). There are also rapid expansions of the Internet that the university ought to use in order to market itself to many customers.

  • Change Management at Ford Motor Company
  •             Ford Motor Company is an international organization that deals with manufacture of vehicles. The company has over 360,000 employees worldwide. The company operates in over 30 countries globally and has 110 manufacturing facilities. In order for the Company to achieve its set strategic goals, the top officials have decided to make a change in the management system. The company has decided to establish a new business program in order to provide the required leadership program. The company believes that the best asset that offers the greatest contribution in running of all the operations is its employees. Therefore, the company has established a strategy to utilize the talent of having competent employees who have the ability of giving the best results. The company needs to concentrate most of its change in the management system and on the brands that will help it to make a difference in the competitive market. The company has an obligation of making the following changes in its management structure (Hughes-Cromwick, 2011).

  • Marketing Audit HP
  • Introduction
  •             Hewlett-Packard (HP) is one of the technology companies that offer various services concerning computers and other handheld devices. The company was established back in 1939. It has played a crucial role in attaining the position of being the world’s largest IT Company. The company operates in more than 170 countries, UAE being one of them. The company offers a complete technological product portfolio in order to outdo its competitors in the market. The company also offers some of the largest and most powerful computer installation in the world[1].

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