Download or read book Career Pathways and Professional Identities for Front-Line Workers in the Service Industries written by Mark Peter Vitale and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This publication is a unique synthesis of concepts presented for a collection of industries that have had little research of this nature conducted as of yet. The hospitality, restaurant and tourism industries feature hundreds of thousands of service-based frontline jobs that are rarely considered long-term careers by either employees or employers. With a deeper understanding of how strategic career pathways and cultures of professional identify can be integrated and applied within these disciplines, industry employers will be able to use this publication to develop proactive strategies to optimize their own operation, establish leadership-focused succession planning and minimize the cost impact of fluctuations in labor availability fluctuations"--