This study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence, self-leadership, service-orientation and service recovery efforts of hotel and airline employees. The data were collected from the front-line employees who work for the 2 major...
This study was to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence, self-leadership, service-orientation and service recovery efforts of hotel and airline employees. The data were collected from the front-line employees who work for the 2 major airline and five star hotels in Seoul. Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, correlational analysis and structure equation model analysis were conducted to test proposed hypotheses with 250 responses. The results showed that emotional intelligence positively influenced self-leadership. Especially, SEA(self emotion appraisal) was extracted as an important factor. In the relationship between emotional intelligence and service-orientation, SEA and OEA(others` emotion appraisal) had significant effects on service-orientation effort. And in the relationship between emotional intelligence and service recovery efforts, the OEA appeared to have a positive effect on service recovery efforts. Additionally, both self-leadership and service-orientation was found to serve as mediators. These results showed that the front-line employees` competence in emotional level is more important than other factors. Thus, the service company should support the employees to release their work-stress. Furthermore, the results can be expected to offer the new paradigm for the front-line service employees emotional importance during the service delivery process.