The purpose of this study is to examine whether hotel manager's emotional leadership has effect on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and customer orientation. In addition, this study attempted to give directions of leadership how to gain com...
The purpose of this study is to examine whether hotel manager's emotional leadership has effect on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and customer orientation. In addition, this study attempted to give directions of leadership how to gain competitive human resources and keep them.
It makes five hypotheses to achieve the purpose of this study.
First, the emotional leadership of the hotel manager will affect the job satisfaction of the hotel employees. Second the emotional leadership of the hotel manager will affect the organizational commitment of the hotel employees. Third the job satisfaction of the hotel employees will affect the customer orientation. Forth the organizational commitment of the hotel employees will affect the customer orientation. Fifth the emotional leadership of the hotel manager will affect the customer orientation by the hotel employees. Moreover, the job satisfaction and organizational commitment also will generate a mediator effect in between the emotional leadership and the customer orientation. The methodology of this study is based upon surveys. The survey were performed six of super deluxe hotels in Jeju from September 20th to September 29th. Out of 400 questionnaires from the survey, 322 questionnaires were used empirical analysis.
Collected data is analyzed by utilizing SPSS(v.18.0) program, statistical package for social science. In addition, it conducted a frequency analysis to find out the general features of the surveyed respondents and a factorial analysis to verify the validity and reliability of the observed variable. Finally, it conducted the multiple regression analysis to analyze the effect of the emotional leadership on the job satisfaction, the organizational commitment, and the customer orientation.
The results are listed below.
Firstly, a review of the effect of emotional leadership on job satisfaction reveals that staffs who more gain emotional leadership can feel high job satisfaction and it also confirms that relationship management, one of the main components of emotional leadership, is the most effect on job satisfaction. Second, the results examined for the effect of the hotel employee’s perceived emotional leadership of manager on the organizational commitment, if they have higher satisfaction of emotional leadership, employees of organizational commitment much higher. Third, the results examined for the effect of job satisfaction on the customer orientation of the hotel employees, if they have higher job satisfaction, customer service much higher. Fourth, the results examined for the effect of hotel employees' organizational commitment on customer orientation, if they have higher organizational commitment, customer orientation much higher. Fifth, the results examined for the effect of the hotel employee’s perceived emotional leadership of manager on customer orientation, if they have higher satisfaction of emotional leadership, employees of customer orientation much higher. Finally, result of mediating effect of the employees' job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the relationship between emotional leadership and customer orientation, hotel employees have job satisfaction and trust in organization to achieve their goals, they have mediating role to increase the customer orientation.
The major findings of this study are followings.
First, we can be found that emotional leadership of hotel manager is very important for effecting to employees' job satisfaction and organizational commitment, and customer orientation. Therefore, when the managers choose, it needs to diversify ways of arrangement of manager who has emotional competence through evaluation of emotional intelligence and leadership skills. In addition, it is necessary to develop programs for emotional competence of manager. Second, due to the fact that relationship management skills have the major impact on employees, when the hotel manager operate the organization, they should be understand feelings and grievances of their subordinates. And then they should be communicated through praise and encouragement with their colleagues. Then it will make better understand each other and co-operation as well. Third, in the hotel industry, to make positive organizational commitment that make staffs willing to work enthusiastically and manage human resources efficiently, it is necessary to operate and develop programs which they can participate themselves and communicate each other.