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1. Summary 際際滷
Rooms Division
Front Office
Housekeeping
Reservations
Night Audit
Rooms Division Organization
DiagramRooms Division Org. Chart
Hotel Organization
Functional Departments
Interaction of Functional Depts. with the Rooms Division
Practical Areas
DiagramGuest Interaction
Top Level Management
DiagramExecutive Committee
Department Heads
DiagramFood and Beverage Department Heads
DiagramSales Department Heads
Traditional vs. Revenue-Based Deployment
DiagramRevenue-Based Deployment
Internet Exercise
Figure 5-1
2. Rooms Division
The rooms division is made up of:
Front Office
Housekeeping
Night Audit
Reservations
What factors may affect the size and
scope of these departments?
Figure 5-2
3. Front Office
The front office is made up of:
Front Desk
Uniform Services
Within Uniform Services:
Bellstand
PBX
Valet Parking/Garage
Concierge
Doorpersons
Figure 5-3
4. Housekeeping
The main responsibilities are:
Maintain guest room cleanliness
Maintain common area cleanliness
Name possible common areas within a
hotel.
Why is housekeeping so important to
the rooms division?
Figure 5-4
5. Reservations
Main responsibility is to sell individual
guest reservations, also referred to as
transient room sales.
Reservations works hand in hand with
group sales to maximize room revenue.
Why is there a dotted line reporting
structure to the rooms division from
reservations?
Figure 5-5
6. Night Audit
Main responsibility is to reconcile the
hotels daily financial transactions and
other activities for reporting purposes.
Night audit conducts its activities at
night when the hotel is least busy.
Why is there a dotted line reporting
structure to the rooms division from
night audit?
Figure 5-6
7. Rooms Division
Organization
Led by Rooms Division
Manager/Resident Manager
Department heads include:
Front Office Manager
Director of Services
Department heads with a dotted line to
the Resident Manager are:
Night Audit Manager
Director of Transient Sales
Figure 5-7
8. Rooms Division Organizational Chart
Director of Loss Prevewntion
Front Desk Supervisor
Front Desk Agent/Guest Service Attendant
Front Desk Manager
Bellstaff
Doorperson
Bell Captain
Valet Parking Staff
Parking Garage Staff
Valet/Garage Supervisor
PBX Operator
PBX Supervisor
Conceirge Manager
Front Office Manager
Rooms Inspector/Senior Housekeeper
Housekeepers/Room Attendants
Housepersons
Assistant Executive Housekeeper
Linen Room Attendant
Tailor/Seamstress
Laundry Manager
Housekeeping Manager/Executive Housekeeper
Director of Services
Reservations Agents
Reservations Manager
Transient Sales Manager
Director of Transient Sales
Night Auditors
Night Audit Manager
Director of Rooms/Resident Manager
General Manager
Figure 5-8
9. Hotel Organization
The following organizational criteria
determine the staffing composition of a
hotel:
A hotels size classification
A hotels location type
A hotels product type (service level and target
market)
What effects would these criteria have on a
hotels organizational structure?
Figure 5-9
10. Functional Departments
Most full-service hotels have six main functional
departments. Each of these departments will
exist, in one form or another, regardless of
location type or product type. They include:
Rooms Division
Food & Beverage
Accounting
Human Resources
Engineering
Sales & Catering
Figure 5-10
11. Interaction of Functional Departments
with the Rooms Division
Food and Beverage
Manual posting of outlet charges
Accounting
Night Audit
Currency Control
Human Resources
Staffing
Training
Figure 5-11
12. Interaction of Functional Departments
with the Rooms Division
Engineering
Maintain the quality of the guest room
Hotel infrastructure maintenance
Sales and Catering
Transient room sales
Group bookings
Figure 5-12
13. Practical Areas
Front of the House:
Rooms Division
Sales and Catering
Food and Beverage
Back of the House:
Human Resources
Accounting
Engineering
Figure 5-13
15. Top Level Management
A traditional deployment scenario includes:
General Manager
Director of Food and Beverage
Director of Marketing
Director of Human Resources
Director of Engineering
Controller
Can you name others that may be associated
with a resort or casino?
Figure 5-15
16. E xecutive/L eaders hip C om m it tee
Director of F ood and B everage
D irec tor of M ark eting
D irec tor of Hum an Resources
D irector of Engineering
Controller
R esiden t Manager/ Dir of R oom s
D irector of G rou nds
D irector of R ecreation
G eneral M an ager
Executive/Leadership Team
Figure 5-16
17. Department Heads
These managers are involved in day to
day hotel operations.
Each member of the leadership team
may have one or more department
heads reporting to him or her.
Department head level managers may
in turn have entry level managers
reporting to them.
Figure 5-17
18. Executive Chef
Director of Catering
Director of Convention Services
Director of Restaurants
Beverage Manager
Director of Food
and Beverage
Figure 5-18
Food & Beverage Department Heads
19. Sales Department Heads
Resident Manager
Director of Group Sales Director of Transient Sales
Director of Marketing
Figure 5-19
20. Traditional versus Revenue-
Based Deployment
Employs the concept that room sales are
unique and that food and beverage sales
are separate.
In this revenue-based deployment,
managers who work in a sales (proactive
revenue) capacity report to one leadership
team member, and those that work in an
operational capacity (reactive revenue)
report to another.
This deployment creates the need for a
Director of Operations.
Figure 5-20
21. Revenue B ased Deploym ent
Director of G roup S ales Director of Transient S ales
Director of Catering
Director of M arketing
Executive Chef
Director of Restaurants
Director of S ervices
Front O ffice M anager
Director of Loss Prevention
Director of O perations
G eneral M anager
Figure 5-21
22. Hospitality Careers
Internet Exercise
As a student of hospitality, you might be
interested in eventually pursuing a career in the
industry.
Many Web sites are available to help you
eventually find a job (several listed here).
Using these sites, search for a job description of
interest.
Compare how the salaries/benefits vary between
chains and independents.
Do the job descriptions vary across the country?
Are the salaries the same? Why or why not?
Figure 5-22
23. Hotel Career Web Sites
http://www.1whcareers.com
http://www.hoteljobresource.com
http://www.hospitalityjobs.com
http://www.hospitalitycareers.net
http://www.hotel-jobs.com
http://www.hcareers.com
http://www.resortjobs.com
http://www.hotelmanagers.net/Homepage.htm
http://www.hotelandcaterer.com
http://www.monster.com
http://www.hotjobs.com
Figure 5-23