Assessment : Article Resource Pack and Essay
Due date – 29th may 2014
Assessment brief:

“It is true that, at an organisational level, human resource practices in tourism have changed in many developed countries and in most larger operations. At the same time, tourism (and hospitality) remain sectors within which, worldwide, very poor employment practices persist, incorporating both minimal compliance with the law and transgression beyond legally accepted behaviour”.
Baum, T. (2007, p. 1396). Human resources in tourism: Still waiting for change. Tourism Management, 28(6), 1383–1399. doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2007.04.005

You are going to construct an essay that argues your agreement or disagreement with the above quote from Tom Baum by completing the following two tasks:

- Task One, Resource Pack:
- Build up a resource pack of current (post-2009) journal articles (a minimum of ten) to be used as a reference base for Task Two of this assignment. You will pick the following topic to concentrate your search.
Topic:

- Empowerment in hospitality and tourism


- The resource pack will include: The articles you have sourced, either in PDF digital form or hard copy; a brief (100 word count, plus or minus ten percent without penalty) summary of each article in the pack. The summary MUST NOT be based on the abstract of the article, but must be written in your own words based on your summary of the article.
- Task Two: Essay:

- Synthesise the articles you have sourced and present an essay argument for or against the Tom Baum statement listed above. You are to create a logical and well supported argument that clearly states you position, using the synthesised findings from your articles to support your argument.

- The essay should follow standard formal essay formatting (an example will be provided in class)
- Word count, 3000 words, (plus or minus ten percent without penalty).