Ri-yaz Heritage Marina & Spa is a luxury 5-star resort in Kuala Terengganu known for hosting sailing events. The resort focuses on providing excellent customer service and comfortable accommodations to achieve its mission. It uses strategic planning and a functional organizational structure. Leadership is democratic and consultative, with an emphasis on task management. The resort establishes standards, measures performance, compares to standards, and takes corrective actions as part of its controlling process. Decision making involves identifying problems, objectives, alternatives and reaching decisions. Employees are motivated through fun programs, commissions, and rewards. Communication is largely digital to reduce time and energy spent. Management decisions follow Islamic principles of mutual consultation.
2. ACKNOWLEGDEMENT
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officiallyandunofficiallyespeciallyMiss SuzianaSaim theSales Managerat Ri-Yaz HeritageMarina &
Spa. Without them,wewouldbefacingplentyofcomplications and challenges to finish this
assignment.
3. INTRODUCTION
Ri-yaz Heritage Marina Resort & Spa was first known as Teluk Warisan.It is a government
organization. It was establish on August 2005. This resort is known internationally as “Home
of The Monsoon Cup”. It is situated at Pulau Duyung, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu. It is a
seven star resort.
For Ri-yaz Heritage Marina Resort & Spa luxurious five star boutique resort, it have 97
garden and river view guest rooms & suits. The resort has wide high speed wireless
broadband. It also have an all-day dining restaurant & alfresco café with scenic view of the
bay and city and an eternity pool for adults with children’s pool and playground. Ri-yaz
Heritage Marina Resort & Spa also have karaoke lounge and various of sport activities such
as mountain bikes, fishing, beach volleyball, canoeing, and paddle and pedal boards. It also
have an exotic exclusive spa, Sembunyi Spa. This spa is owned by the Marina. It is a tropical
spa concept, 3 private treatment rooms. Not to mention the traditional Balinese massages and
treatments. This spa’s motto is “A Hideaway for Mind, Body & Soul.”
This resort also contain full/ half day meeting package. The full day meeting package consist
of 2 coffee breaks and for the lunch and half day meeting package consist of 1 coffee break
and lunch. There are several types of meeting room such as Cindai Ballroom, Marina Garden,
Marina Patio, Exhibition Hall, Songket, Sutera 1-4, Batik 1-4, Baldu, Keris, Bunga Raya,
Mawar, Cempaka, Melati 1-4, Kemboja 1-4, Melor 1-4,Rajawali 1, Rajawali 2, Rajawali
Foyer, Helang, Merak 1-6, Perdana Suite, and Royal Suite.
Ri-yaz Heritage Marina & Exhibition Centre’s call sign is Ri-yaz Heritage Marina.The
Marina radio frequency is VHF Channel 69 & 16. The distance by air from Kuala Lumpur
60 minutes and from Singapore 1 hour 25 minutes to the Ri-yaz Heritage Marina &
Exhibition Centre . There are a few place of interest that we can go by road such as shopping
5 minutes, Central (web & craft) market 10 minutes, state library 5 minutes, state museum
10 minutes from Ri-yaz Heritage Marina & Exhibition Centre.
4. The details and features for this resort, it has a 5 Mega yacht berths dockage for vessels up to
100m and 36 wet berths and dockage for vessels from 10m to 35m, 24 hours security and
calm and sheltered marina basin, no surge, no wake. The harbour is so clean, quite and non-
commercialised storm protected harbour up to 230 – 400, 32 & 125 amp electric service
available at slips and metered fresh water supply. It also has steel piling, HDPE float and
fenders, timber walkways and fingers.
Other facilities that available in this resort are laundry services, fitness centre and wet area
(sauna, Jacuzzi whirlpool, shower & toilet) . Wi-fi internet available at the Marina building
and daily scheduled shuttle into town and propane gas filling assistance and facsimile & e-
mail services
Lastly, this resort is only 7 minutes away from Kuala Terengganu International Airport and
Kuala Terengganu town. Which are very convenient.
5. CONTENTS
No. Topics Page
1. Planning
2. Organizing
3. Leading
4. Controlling
5. Decision Making
6. Motivation
7. Communication
8. Management from Islamic Perspective
9. Conclusions
10. Reference
11. Appendices
6. PLANNING
The definition of planning is the process of outlining the activities that are necessary to
achieve the goals of the organization. Below is the mission, vision, goals, and objective of the
Ri-yaz Heritage Marina & Spa;
Ri-yaz Heritage Marina & Spa:
Mission:
Provide the best hospitality services.
Vision:
Generate more revenues. (wider influence)
Goals:
i. To provide the best customer service
ii. To provide the most comfortable accommodation
iii. To cultivate adaptability to change in economic, social and environmental
conditions.
Objectives:
i. To help in creating job opportunities
ii. To become the best hospitality services
Analysis
Based on the information given, this resort is focusing on forward thinking. They use the
strategic planning which is a long term planning done by the top management which in this
resort is the director of board.
7. ORGANIZING
Analysis:
This resort organizes their organizing by using this process. Firstly, the superior will
determine the work that needs to be done. After that they will divide the work into
department and coordinate the work done by the employees. Lastly the superior will monitor
and supervise the employees to make sure the work is done perfectly and according to the
expectations of the resort. As for their organizational chart, they stated that it is confidential
and based on the explanation given by the spokesperson, their organization is using the
functional structure based on the diagram above. They have eight departments which are, the
front office, sales, kitchen, family, accounts, maintenance, security, and marina. Each of the
department have their own manager that will supervise their subordinates.
Detailing of work
Division of work
Departmentalization
Coordination of
work
Monitoring and
reorganizing
GM
FUNCTIONAL
MANAGER
EMPLOYEES
8. LEADING
Leadership Styles :
Democratic & Democratic consultative
Managerial Grid:
Task Management (9,1)
-High production, low concern for people
Path-goal theory:
Directive leaders.
-Let employees know what is expected of them
Analysis:
On the topic leading, this resort’s leadership style is the Democratic & Democratic
consultative. It is because of the management will make the decision by participating the
employees in minor decision making. The management encourages participations in the
decision making but the leader is the one who will decide the actions needed. For the
managerial grid, Ri-Yaz Heritage Marina & Spa shows high concern for production but low
concern for the people. It is because this resort must maintain their standard of services and
accommodations to be known worldwide as this resort is a seven-star hotel. Based on the
path-goal theory, the manager of this resort are using the directive leader styles as they let
their employees know what is expected of them that is to give the best services and
accommodation.
9. CONTROLLING
Controlling prosses:
STEP 1: ESTABLISHING STANDARDS
A control standard is a target against which organization performance will be
compared. It must be measurable, specific and accepted.
STEP 2: MEASURE ACTUAL PERFORMANCE
Performance measurement is a constant, ongoing activity for most
organizations.
STEP 3: COMPARE PERFORMANCE AGAINST STANDARDS
Performance may be higher than, lower than, or identical to the standard.
STEP 4: DETERMINE NEED FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION
Decisions regarding corrective action draw heavily on a manager’s analytic
and diagnostic skills. After comparing, one of the three actions appropriate:
Maintain the status quo (do nothing)
Correct the deviation
Change the standard
Post action control:
Focuses on the output of the organization after the transformation process is complete
Analysis:
Ri-Yaz Heritage Marina & Spa does follows the process. First, they will establish standard,
which in this resort, their standard is high class resort. Next, Ri-Yaz Heritage Marina & Spa
10. will measure actual performance after establish standards by supervise the ongoing activities
of this resort. After that, this resort will compare their performance, is it higher, lower or
identical to the standard. If the performance is lower than the standard, they will find
alternative to improve their performance. This resort is using the post action control as they
want to maintain their standard. This resort have to maintain their services that is known as a
seven-star for their accommodation and services given to the customers.
11. DECISION MAKING
Ri-Yaz Heritage Marina & Spa makes their decision depends on the problems. If the
problems will affect only the involved department, then they won’t involve other department
in the decision making. Problems that will affect the whole resort will be decided by the
higher superior without involving lower employees. Based on the explanation given by the
spokesperson, if the problems occurs is a minor problems then, the problems will be solve
without involving any formal meetings. For the problems of each department, the manager
will handle it within the department.
Analysis:
Ri-Yaz Heritage Marina & Spa makes their decision by following the steps:
1. Identifying opportunities and diagnosing problems.
2. Identifying objectives.
3. Generating alternative
4. Evaluating alternative
5. Reaching decision
6. Choosing implementation strategies
7. Monitoring and evaluating.
12. MOTIVATION
Ri-Yaz Heritage Marina & Spa motivates their employees by using a few alternatives. This
resort will held a program that will involve only the employees of the selected day for one or
two hours. This program’s objective is to let the employees to have some fun time even
though you’re working. This program also has some activities that will let you get some cash
if you win the games. This is one of the motivations done by the resort. Employees will enjoy
themselves and still have the fun in doing their works. The spokesperson said that, this
program has already done for a long time and it is working. Other than that, the resort’s
motivation to make the employees work harder is giving commission to those that gives extra
effort in doing their duty. Besides, this resort gives higher rates for part-times to encourage
new workers even though it is only part timers. They also have rewards for employees that
gives more effort than the others which are the employee of the month, employee of the
quarter year and employee of the year.
Analysis:
Based on the explanation on the Ri-Yaz Heritage Marina & Spa resort, their motivation is
based on the two-factor theory by Herzberg. This theory explains that there are 2 factors that
affect the employees. The first one is motivator factor and the second one is the hygiene
factor.
13. COMMUNICATION
Ri-yaz Heritage Marina Resort & Spa communicates with their employees by e-mails or
telephones. This method reduces the time and energy consumed. The manager or the higher
superior does not have to use their energy or time to call or find the employees. They only
have to press just a few simple buttons or clicks to call or find the appointed employee. But,
there is a barrier to this method which is, employees that are unreachable. If this problems
occur, the manager or the higher superior will have to use their time and energy to find the
appointed employees. In this resort, as the spokesperson explained to us, this problem occurs
once in a blue moon. All of their staff and employees are always reachable.
Analysis:
Based on the explanation above, this resort is using the technological communications which
are:
i. Telecommuting or “Telework”
Working at a remote site through a computer linked to a central office or other employment
location.
ii. Electronic Mail (E-mail)
Sending messages through computerized text-processing and communication networks.
iii. Video Conferencing
An umbrella term for technologies that use live video to unite widely dispersed company
operations.
iv. The Internet
Essentially, “everything” can be done on the internet.
14. MANAGEMENT FROM
ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE
Ri-yaz Heritage Marina Resort & Spa handles their resort according to the Islamic perpective.
The manager or the higher superior will make a meeting if there are problems occurs and they
will decide the actions need to solve it. They will ask opinions from the employees to see the
problems from their perspective and the leader will decide the actions. Ri-yaz Heritage
Marina Resort & Spa’s kitchen prepares food according to the Islamic perspective as it serve halal
food for the customers and make sure that their kitchen is always up to standard as they control the
cleanliness of the kitchen and surround it.
Analysis:
Ri-yaz Heritage Marina Resort & Spa follows the Islamic perspective which is the Syura or the
mutual consultations. Syura is the process of managing things through teamwork. Leaders are
obligated to consult those with knowledge and who would provide good service.
15. CONCLUSION
As a conclusion, we had learnt how Ri-yaz Heritage Marina Resort & Spa manages their
organization. This resort had already set their goals and objective while pursuing to achieve
their vision and mission. We also get to know how this resort manages their department and
subordinates. In this assignment, we get to know the basic management of Ri-yaz Heritage
Marina Resort & Spa which is the planning, leading, organizing and controlling. In addition,
we get to know the function of each of the department manager in this resort and how they
perform their task. Besides, Ri-yaz Heritage Marina Resort & Spa have two styles of
leadership such as democratic and democratic consultative. As for motivation, this resort uses
the two-factor model by Herzberg that is consist of two factor, motivator factor and hygiene
factor. Other than that, we also get to know how this resort make their decision in case of
problems and difficulties of the employee’s task. Lastly, the management from Islamic
perspective in this resort, they used the mutual consultation or Syura to make decision by
gathering and consult with people that have the knowledge and would provide good service.
16. REFERENCES
1. Principles of Management
2. Internet :
- www.wikipedia.com/management
- http://www.ri-yazheritage.com/
3. Spokesperson – Miss Suziana Saim (Sales Manager)