You must include at least 1 challenge or unique factor to support your context-specific details about the hospitality industry (i.e., hours of operations; seasonality; wages and salaries) that describe and highlight the characteristics of the hospitality industry as well as how and why the hospitality industry differs from other industries. You must use at least 1 scholarly source – examples of scholarly sources include books and academic journals written by scholars and experts. On the other hand, popular sources are written by and intended for a general audience such as magazine articles, websites, and blogs.
Leadership Application
The project should identify and integrate relevant leadership constructs (e.g., transformational, servant, leader-member exchange, emotional intelligence, etc.) to support your topic. Identify, analyze, and describe why your topic is important or significant to leadership within hospitality. Weave appropriate leadership theories and constructs that are tied to your topic. Students should display exemplary critical thinking, mature ability to incorporate leadership theories, connect themes and constructs across course chapters and the industry. As a reminder, please support your claims and ideas with relevant and convincing supporting research from the annotated bibliographies and sources to support ideas, claims, and opinions on your group’s topic.
Remember the following points as you develop your talk:
Identify leadership constructs that addresses how the construct can be cultivated.
Impact of your topic on the individual outcomes, mechanisms, and character, as well as group and organizational mechanisms
Integrate sound research; you should certainly infuse your own opinions, but you must also base your talk on sound findings
