PUBLISHED WORKS
Hospitality Law: Managing Legal Issues in the Hospitality Industry
Hospitality Law, Sixth Edition teaches readers how to manage a facility legally, safely, and securely, using an applied approach grounded in compliance and prevention. Its legal content is carefully selected to help readers understand how to make sound, ethical decisions.
Highly pedagogical, the book features interactive exercises and real-world cases that emphasize practical application, guiding readers through decision-making that protects employees, guests, and the organization from liability. The authors introduce legal concepts quickly and use individual and group exercises to help readers apply them to real hospitality management scenarios.
Updates include up-to-date legal and regulatory changes, covering topics such as COVID-19 impacts, AI workplace policies, website accessibility, food allergies, social media use, safety hazards, the Fentanyl and human-trafficking crises, and LGBTQ workplace rights, with resources and links updated to the latest information. Instructor materials have also been fully revised, including PowerPoint slides, an Instructor’s Manual, and test banks.
Intelligent Emotions: On Self Responsibility, Owning Our Emotional Power, and Changing Our Reactions
We all want balance and happiness. The problem is that life often gets in the way. Hectic schedules, relationship struggles and failure to let go of the little (or big) stuff become insurmountable blocks to inner peace and personal productivity. One of the keys to breaking through is emotional intelligence, and it is more crucial to our everyday personal and professional lives than ever before. In a succinct, entertaining, and insightful narrative, lawyer and motivational speaker Stephen Barth, through stories and personal accounts of trial and error, helps you on your journey to achieve emotional intelligence and bring peace, contentment and greater productivity into your life. By owning our emotional power, accepting responsibility for our feelings and making the shift from negative reactions to positive responses, Stephen demonstrates a simple path to attain emotional success.
Positive Leadership for Positive Performance
Every organization wants to succeed, yet many get stuck just surviving, weighed down by pressure, procedures, and endless to-do lists that leave little room for creativity or connection. In Positive Leadership for Positive Performance: Taking Your Organization from Surviving to Thriving, Stephen Barth shows that real progress comes not from control, but from care. Thriving organizations grow under leaders who see people—not positions—as their greatest strength, who listen before directing, coach rather than command, and let respect and empathy guide every decision. Through clear examples and simple practices, Barth reveals how small shifts in mindset, such as valuing attitudes over résumés, treating employees as partners, and recognizing effort as much as results, can quietly transform culture and performance alike. Practical yet deeply human, his message is clear: leaders who choose positivity and purpose elevate not just their teams, but the entire organization.