Case Study Donna Shader Manager of
the Winter Park Hotel
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Case Study
Donna Shader, manager of the Winter
Park Hotel, is considering how to restructure the front desk to reach an
optimum level of staff efficiency and guest service. At present, the hotel has
five clerks on duty, each with a separate waiting line, during the peak
check-in time of 3:00 pm and 5:00 pm. Observation of arrivals during this time
show that an average of 90 guests arrive each hour (although there is no upward
limit on the number that could arrive at any given time). It takes an average of
3 minutes for each front-desk clerk to register each guest. Donna is
considering three plans for improving guest services by reducing the length of
time guests spend waiting in line. The first proposal would designate one
employee as a quick-service clerk for guests registering under corporate
accounts, a market segment that fills about 30% of all occupied rooms. Because
corporate guests are preregistered, their registration takes just 2 minutes.
With these guests separated from the rest of the clientele, the average time
for registering a typical guest would climb to 3.4 minutes. Under plan 1,
non-corporate guests would choose any of the remaining four lines. The second
plan is to implement a single-line system. All guests could form a single
waiting line to be served by whichever of five clerkes become available. This
option would require sufficient lobby space for what could be a substantial
queue. The third proposal involves using an automatic teller machine (ATM) for
check-ins. This ATM would provide approximately the same service rate as a
clerk would. Given that initial use of this technology might be minimal, Shader
estimated that 20% of customers, primarily frequent guests, would be willing to
use the machines. (this might be a conservative estimate if the guests perceive
direct benefits from using the ATM, as bank customers do. Citibank reports that
some 95% of it’s Manhattan customers use it’s ATMs.) Donna would set up a
single queue for customers who prefer human check-in clerks. This would be served
by the five clerks, although Donna is hopeful that the machine will allow a
reduction to four.
1. Determine the average amount of
the time that a guest spends checking in. How would this change under each of
the stated opinions?
2. Which option do you recommend?
Must be in Word (APA format) and the
analysis in Excel QM.
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