As the growth of service ratio in modern industry had introduced competitive sense among firms and demand of pleasant service for workers in terms of attitude, image, and being kind and friendly service, for their importance on produce.
Hotels cont...
As the growth of service ratio in modern industry had introduced competitive sense among firms and demand of pleasant service for workers in terms of attitude, image, and being kind and friendly service, for their importance on produce.
Hotels control emotional expression of its employees with certain demanding standard. As employees deal with this demand, emotional division becomes a part of labor in service industry where the nature of emotional labor can be represented best.
Emotional labor accelerates discordance from the gap between their actual emotion and demands of system, which degrade contentment level of employees, this can conclude departure. Precedent studies on stress show employees who cognate stress and find it hard to overcome, eventual experience can be exhaustion.
The objective of this thesis is to figure the connection between female hotel culinary staff and the level of occupational contentment which emotional labor and exhaustion provoke. From that, need to alleviate pressure of emotional labor and exhaustion can be met, need for basic study to increase occupational contentment also can be found a way to go.
Significance of this study is to set a precedent data for ongoing studies, to find solution of issue on female hotel culinary staff and their emotional labor, exhaustion, and occupational contentment. Survey target is female culinary staffs who are employed by five-star luxury hotels in Seoul.
The object of this thesis is most concerned while survey strategy is supported by extracted factors from precedent studies.
Bibliographic and evidential study was implemented, collected data is analyzed through data coding and data cleaning, also analyzed by SAS statistical program for frequency, factor, reliability, t-test, Anova, and regression.
Summary of this thesis is as follows.
Level of emotional labor pressure was high among groups of non-married, college or university degree, 3 to 5 years of hired-by-hotel experience, relatively low level among groups of married, more than graduate school degree, 10 years or more experience on the other hand. This data show active tries to reduce emotional pressure of non-married 3 to 5 years experienced group should be followed. Emotional exhaustion is more serious in group of sous-chefs or higher position, compared with group of first-line-cooks or less higher position. This reveals needs of re-education or energizing sessions such as job vision suggestion. Meanwhile, contentment level of occupational accomplishment is relatively high in second cooks and first cooks group, age of 26 to 40, college or university degree, contentment level of job fitness is higher in group of sous-chefs with university degree or more on the other hand. First cooks group which job fitness level is lower shows better contentment of accomplishment, this means efforts to encourage sous-chefs are needed. Expression caution level grows, higher impersonality and emotional exhaustion level is. This proves to prevent impersonality and exhaustion, pressure for emotional labor should be reduced. The fact that group of higher impersonality shows lower contentment means ease of impersonality from reduced expressive pressure for hotel employees are in urgent need.
Study shows while female culinary staffs are dealing emotional labor, they experience discordance owing to expressing standardized emotion instead of actual emotion, and also shows emotional labor and exhaustion of female culinary staffs is connected with job contentment.
With the result of this study, exhaustion from emotional labor should be reduced or be prevented, programs and systematic complement for self-control should be prepared to increase occupational contentment, studies on female hotel culinary staff and their job management should be followed.