performance measurement

The impact of performance measurement in a service factory – How performance measurement impacted employee behaviour and performance of the housekeeping operations of a British luxury hotel

Joachim Sandt, j.sandt@iubh.de, International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef – Bonn, Germany
Christoph Hoffmann, mail@chrhoffmann.de (Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London, UK)

Keywords: Behavioural impact, hotel operations, housekeeping, management controls systems as a package, performance measurement.

Abstract:

In hotel operations, especially housekeeping, financial and non-financial performance measurement and management to impact employee behaviour to implement the organization’s goals is often not systematically and formally applied. The case of the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge hotel is used to show how the implementation of performance measurement and management systems impacted the behaviour of the employees. With more than 1,000 rooms and a high occupancy rate, housekeeping operations are repetitive and high volume processes. They could be viewed to be a service factory. The management control framework by K.A. Merchant and Wim Van der Stede will be used to describe performance measurement and management control systems before and after the implementation. Formerly, housekeeping operations in the case hotel relied primarily on informal action control and personnel control. Then, formal non-financial results control and formal action controls had been implemented. The new management control package resulted in significant changes in employee behaviour and – thus – in the performance of department.

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Thanks to the team of the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge hotel for allowing the research to be carried out.

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