Rationale:On a daily basis, tourism and hospitality managers are required to be dynamic and influential yet empathetic and participative

Rationale:
On a daily basis, tourism and hospitality managers are required to be dynamic and influential yet empathetic and participative. They must champion innovation and creativity whilst monitoring stability, structure and control. An underlying commonality is the need to make decisions, both tactically and strategically, that influence the outcomes for many stakeholders. These decisions are sometimes instinctive and at other times calculated and well considered. They are all however, based on a collaboration of experience, research and sharing ideas.
Your task:
Gather academic and non-academic material which reflect your response to ‘The Topic’:
Management is the pursuit of flexibility
Instructions:
Find at least 2 items (one Academic journal article and one Industry article) that are relevant to the topic, ‘Management is the pursuit of flexibility’.
Prepare a blog entry for each item that you have chosen (maximum 200 words per entry): Blog entry should be structured in three sections:
• include a brief critical review of your chosen material
• outline how your material relates to the ‘The Topic’ and the themes outlined in Quinn et al. (2015)
• show links to your own managerial/work/personal experiences.
Marking criteria
• evidence of synthesising the literature/textbook
• evidence of idea generation and constructive comments which extend the discussion.
• identification of practical evidence and discussion