Human Resource Management Practices and Sustainable Growth in Star Hotels of Nepal

Abstract

The world is a rapidly and constantly  changing place and that change is a part of the reality of  business, which challenges all industries and the entire  world. Because of the reason that the emergence of the  knowledge-driven economy has evolved a significant  challenge for human resource managers on how to manage  employees involved by gathering, levering, and using  knowledge effectively to achieve competitive advantage in  the global economy, which drag interest to the researcher on  HRM practices for Nepalese star hotel industry for four  reasons. One is in such a politically unstable situation, how  far hotels are practicing towards employees so that  employees provide the best service that attracts tourists to  visit again. Second is the urgency behind tourism ‘Double  the Number of Visitors Visiting Nepal’ plan of Nepal  tourism for 2019 and so finding out the rate of tourism till  date. The third is the issue and importance of HRM for  sustainable growth. Fourth, the issue of re-development and  practice of HRM which is specific, relevant, and useful in  the hospitality industry and besides affiliation to a political  party and its support, how far Nepalese star industries have  grown for sustainability and the status of its. The paper  presents an overall figure of the HRM practices in the case of  star hotels in Nepal and the conclusion is drawn on an  abstract basis, it is hard to make more conclusive use of its  data. This study used a qualitative and descriptive approach  with a convenient sampling method for data collection.  Given the high proportion of quantitative studies in  hospitality industry research across the world, a qualitative  method is used in this research and in-depth interviews were done. Thirty hotels were approached and fifteen hotels  participated in this research which was shown in table 2,  representing a 50 percent response rate.