Strategic Human Resource Management in the International Hospitality Industry. An Extensive Literature Review

Abstract

This review takes an evolutionary perspective on the development of strategic human resource management literature. Managing human resources strategically, provides to a hotel business the opportunity to develop its plans for recruitment, training, and compensation based on the goals of the organization, ensuring a greater chance of organizational success. The paper focuses on how the field has evolved to its current state, articulates many of the major findings and contributions, and discusses how its potential future evolution. This approach contributes to the field of strategic human resource management by analyzing cases and good practices from the international environment. The article is aimed at exploring human resource management from a strategic perspective, tracing and exploiting effective managerial approaches of hospitality industry in the global environment.KeywordsStrategic human resources managementHotel managementInternational environmentJEL ClassificationL1M1M16