Project Assignment: TED Talk Proposal Outline (Group): the topic is to tip or not to tip

For this outline, your group will discuss and develop a final proposal outline for your TED Talk. This assignment should not be a list of every member’s outline, it should be a coherent, single outline. Please use the outline criteria below:

Outline

Introduction

Please justify the importance and/or bigger picture of your topic. Build on the popular source from the previous assignment to demonstrate the significance of your topic. You must include at least 1 idea per group member and at least 1 popular source. Popular sources are written by and intended for a general audience such as magazine articles, websites, and blog Please include the link or access to the popular source (current and/or mainstream source).

 

Remember the following points as you develop your talk:

  • Introduce your topic in an engaging way to draw the audience in
  • Provide a compelling story that illustrates the importance of your topic
  • Integrate sound research; you should certainly infuse your own opinions, but you must also base your talk on sound findings

 

Hospitality Work Context

Focus on how your topic and the unique nature of the hospitality industry presents a challenge, opportunity, or advantage over other industries like manufacturing, transportation, retail, banking, or agriculture. Using readings, online sources, and your own creativity, describe why your topic is important and different for the hospitality industry. Take into consideration the role of managers, employee priorities, practical application, and feasibility. Be creative and innovative, look for unique situational and circumstantial reasons for why your topic is interesting and important to our industry.

Build a case for why your topic is important and/or interesting to the hospitality and service industry. Why is your topic a challenge for the hospitality industry? Think about the unique circumstances employees and managers have to take into consideration in regard to your topic. These include, but are not limited to:

  • primary employee demographic in terms of age, gender, ethnicity (i.e., female front desk agents, male chefs and predominately male kitchen staff);
  • hours of operation (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year; holidays, weekends, nights);
  • peak busy seasons (convention vs. tourist season, Friday/Saturday, dinner rush, Sunday brunch rush);
  • wages and salaries (low hourly wages, high dependency on tipping, commission-based salaries);
  • highly customer-focused business models;
  • alcohol (intoxicated customers and guests);
  • sexual harassment (from customers and coworkers).

 

Remember the following points as you develop your talk:

  • Why your topic is important and/or interesting to the hospitality and service industry
  • Why is your topic a challenge for leaders in the hospitality industry
  • Integrate sound research; you should certainly infuse your own opinions, but you must also base your talk on sound findings

 

You must include at least 1 challenge or unique factor to support your context-specific details about the hospitality industry (i.e., hours of operations; seasonality; wages and salaries) that describe and highlight the characteristics of the hospitality industry as well as how and why the hospitality industry differs from other industries. You must use at least 1 scholarly source – examples of scholarly sources include books and academic journals written by scholars and experts. On the other hand, popular sources are written by and intended for a general audience such as magazine articles, websites, and blogs.

Leadership Application

The project should identify and integrate relevant leadership constructs (e.g., transformational, servant, leader-member exchange, emotional intelligence, etc.) to support your topic. Identify, analyze, and describe why your topic is important or significant to leadership within hospitality. Weave appropriate leadership theories and constructs that are tied to your topic. Students should display exemplary critical thinking, mature ability to incorporate leadership theories, connect themes and constructs across course chapters and the industry. As a reminder, please support your claims and ideas with relevant and convincing supporting research from the annotated bibliographies and sources to support ideas, claims, and opinions on your group’s topic.

 

Remember the following points as you develop your talk:

  • Identify leadership constructs that addresses how the construct can be (or can it even be?) cultivated.
  • Impact of your topic on the individual outcomes, mechanisms, and character, as well as group and organizational mechanisms
  • Integrate sound research; you should certainly infuse your own opinions, but you must also base your talk on sound findings

 

You must include at least 1 leadership construct or application and at least 1 scholarly source – examples of scholarly sources include books and academic journals written by scholars and experts. On the other hand, popular sources are written by and intended for a general audience such as magazine articles, websites, and blogs.

 

Call to action

Provide call to action items for the industries. These suggestions, solutions, and practical implications for your group’s topic should demonstrate a high level of critical thinking and application of leadership constructs and theories. Your call to action items should reflect a well-developed understanding of the unique traits and characteristics of the hospitality industry. Call to action items should go beyond broad and generic suggestions such as selection, hiring, and training. Additionally, your call to action items should be supported with relevant and convincing research. Excellent papers will also demonstrate well-organized and well-developed ideas and thoughts in a logical and mature manner.

Remember the following points as you develop your talk:

  • Provide a call to action highlighting the practical implications of your talk
  • Call to action ideas should be innovative and plausible, going beyond broad and generic suggestions such as selection, hiring, and training
  • Integrate sound research; you should certainly infuse your own opinions, but you must also base your talk on sound findings

 

You must include at least 1 call to action and at least 1 scholarly source – examples of scholarly sources include books and academic journals written by scholars and experts. On the other hand, popular sources are written by and intended for a general audience such as magazine articles, websites, and blogs.