The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of hotel service orientation on the satisfaction of the employees, customer orientation and performance in hotels.
To accomplish this purpose, from 17, April, 2004 to the 30, April, 2004, 300 em...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of hotel service orientation on the satisfaction of the employees, customer orientation and performance in hotels.
To accomplish this purpose, from 17, April, 2004 to the 30, April, 2004, 300 employees of high class tourist hotels in Jeju were given questionnaires of which 232 were returned of which 222 were used for empirical analysis.
This study consists of 5 chapters:
(1) Introduction
(2) Theoretical Backgrounds : Hotel Service, Service Orientation, Employees' Satisfaction, Customer Orientation and Business Performance
(3) Methodology
(4) Empirical Research
(5) Conclusions.
Frequency, the T-test, Oneway ANOVA, Factor Analysis, Reliability and Multiple Regression Analysis by a statistical package, SPSS for Windows(Release 10.0), were used to analyze each variable.
The results of hypotheses test can be summarized as follows:
(1) There is high positive relationship between service orientation and customer orientation. And the major factor for the satisfaction of the employees is service system.
(2) There is high positive relationship between service orientation and satisfaction of employees. And the major factor for customer orientation is service encounter while the management of personnel resource is a weak factor for the variable of customer orientation.
(3) There is pretty high relationship between service orientation and business performance. And the major factor for the satisfaction of the employees is leadership while the effects of the variables such as the management of personnel resource and service encounter on the performance of hotels are weak relatively.
(4) The satisfaction of the employees and performance were different significantly according to demographic variables such as sex, marriage state and age while customer orientation was not different significantly according to demographic variables. The satisfaction of employees, customer orientation and business performance were different significantly according to demographic variables such as working period and the position.
In conclusion, service orientation is the most important factor for hotel industry. That is, through the satisfaction of the employees, the service quality by them can be improved, furthermore difference of service orientation, satisfaction of the employees, customer orientation and performance according to demographic variables should be considered for managerial policies.
Limitations to this study are as follows;
(1) Samples of data were collected from high class hotels in Jeju area, so the results of this study may have the limits of application.
(2) In further studies, a variable such as customer orientation can be measured on both sides, customers and employees.