Producing Global Managers

Abstract

Always international, the hospitality industry needs managers who consider the long-range impact of their decisions on the global community. Unfortunately, it seems that hospitality schools cannot yet provide the necessary leadership in “going global.” To globalize the student body colleges should: accept more international students, develop international student-exchange programs, intensify support for international students, increase scholarship aid, and require foreign-language skills. To globalize their faculty, universities should require more international faculty exchanges and sabbatical leaves, recruit more international faculty members, and increase the use of industry professionals as guest lecturers and executives in residence.