5/ AN ASSESSMENT OF GUEST PERCEPTIONS OF SERVICE QUALITY IN LUXURY HOTELS IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA Basheer Abbas Al-alak 17/ DEMAND FOR MANAGEMENT STAFF IN TOURISM SECTOR OF WIELKOPOLSKA Katarzyna Czaińska, Wojciech Grala 24/ APPLICATION OF DESTINATION MANAGEMENT IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC Katarína Kleinová, Juraj Neománi 30/ TRANSATLANTIC INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS: THE CANADIAN-GERMAN-HUNGARIAN CULTURAL READER PROJECT Judit Nagy, Mátyás Bánhegyi 37/ IMPACT OF SELECTED HRM PRACTICES ON PERCEIVED EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY Pankaj Tiwari 44/ THE 7-S-MCKINSEY MODEL: AN IMPLEMENTATION TOOL OF A DESTINATION MARKETING STRATEGY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC Monika Palatkowá 55/ TOP MANAGEMENT - THE MARKET NEEDS AND APPLICATION OF MANAGERS IN RURAL TOURISM IN SLOVAKIA Zuzana Lušnáková, Mária Šajbidorová 62/ ADJUSTMENT AND EXPATRIATION OF MANAGERS: SWITCHING THE PLACES OF SOCIALISATION Jean-Yves Agard, Norma Mevel-Pla 81/ THE EFFEFECTIVENESS OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AS A TOOL FOR ENHANCING EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN THE PUBLIC HEALTH SECTOR Ruby Melody Agbola assisted by Sophia Hemans and Sumaila Abena 97/ TOURISM AND HRD: SOME PERSPECTIVES G.D. Sardana 103/ SKILLS, PERCEPTIONS AND THE SOCIO-ECONOMICS OF HOTEL FRONT DESK EMPLOYEES IN ISRAEL-PRELIMINARY FINDINGS Teitler Regev Sharon, Oksana Goziker 110/ CHANGING HIGHER LEARNING INSTITUTIONS TO MAKE POSITIVE SOCIAL IMPACT FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS Hamid H Kazeroony 116/ INNOVATIVE WAYS OF INTEGRITY TEACHING AND INTEGRITY EDUCATION MANAGEMENT USING INNOVATIVE CASE STUDIES Peter Odrakiewicz 126/ SUSTAINABILITY AND GREENING BUSINESS Philippa Collins The Global Management Journal (GMJ) is committed to the publication of original papers ranging from empirical scholarly research to theoretical or speculative articles, all on a variety of topics under the category of business management with a global context. In addition to the global management focus, however, the GMJ seeks submissions for publication with a decidedly social science application or approach; that is, writing on global management predominately connected with the subfields of the social science, and management fields such as:  business education  business ethics  communication studies  economics  entrepreneurship  ethnic and ethnographic studies  financial and risk management  globalization and globalization studies  history  geopolitics and international relations  human resource management  human values and belief systems  intercultural studies  organizational behavior and theory  psychology  sociology  strategic management  tourism and service management The GMJ, while desiring to publish works which may have an important impact on the field of management, also encourages new approaches, ideas and perspecti- ves on well-established theories and existing research. Vol. 3, No. 1, 2 /2011 ISSN 2080-2951