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LEADERSHIP SENSEMAKING: HOW SHAPING AND ACTING IN LEADER’S MIND: A STORY OF VEGETARIAN & VEGAN RESTAURANT
LEADERSHIP SENSEMAKING: HOW SHAPING AND ACTING IN LEADER’S MIND: A STORY OF VEGETARIAN
& VEGAN RESTAURANT
Shou-Der Weng
Department of Tourism, Meiho University
23, Pingguang Rd., Neipu, Pingtung County 91202, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Department of Tourism Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and
Technology
No. 415, Jiangong Rd., Sanmin Dist., Kaohsiung City 80778, Taiwan (R.O.C.); This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ming-Yuan Wang
Department of Tourism Management, National Kaohsiung University of Science and
Technology
No. 415, Jiangong Rd., Sanmin Dist., Kaohsiung City 80778, Taiwan (R.O.C.); This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
*Wei-Shuo Lo
Department of Tourism, Meiho University
23, Pingguang Rd., Neipu, Pingtung County 91202, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
*Corresponding author: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract
What is hospitability? The answer would be satisfying for a guest’s needs. In the hospitability industry, people are one of important factors at the input of the service system. People are employees who play a key role to deliver one or more services to satisfy customers’ needs in the service-profit chain. However, how to deliver a satisfied service is one of the critical competences and skills in hospitability industry. Therefore, a leader must to prepare a skill that is how to train their employee can deliver the service with quality and successfully. In this paper is not to focus what is leadership, since the issues have been broadly discussed and some studies of leadership also have investigated how to apply in different industries. Therefore, the study aims to explore the mind of leader how to shape and why they act with leadership. Through the qualitative research method for a vegetarian & vegan restaurant, data collected by several interviews and observations with the key manager, who is Buddhism but not a Buddhist, and then we find the story of restaurant the mind of leader shaping by mindful and acting by sensemaking leadership
Keywords: Case study, Hospitability industry, Leadership, Mindful, Sensemaking
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