酒店员工-顾客间互动对员工工作效率和顾客满意度的影响研究

员工-顾客间互动是酒店服务互动的重要形式之一,更是顾客感知服务质量、服务价值以及满意度的基础.文章从员工角度出发,构建了员工-顾客间互动频率、互动质量与员工工作效率、顾客满意度等变量之间的关系模型.以酒店员工为调查对象,以问卷调查为主要调研方式,利用结构方程模型进行实证检验.研究发现,员工-顾客间的互动频率和互动质量对员工工作效率有显著正向影响,工作效率在互动频率和顾客满意度之间具有完全中介效应,在互动质量和顾客满意度之间具有部分中介效应.     

领导社会责任取向对酒店员工工作满意度的影响

目前,中国酒店业员工工作满意度低、离职率高等问题严重制约了酒店业的持续、健康发展.虽然有不少国内外学者从很多维度研究了对酒店员工满意度的影响,但从领导者社会责任取向来研究对员工工作满意度的影响还相对缺乏,不利于解决酒店员工满意率偏低的问题.该研究通过对长沙地区高星级酒店员工进行问卷调查,运用因子分析、多元回归分析等方法研究了酒店领导者社会责任取向与员工工作满意度之间的关系.研究表明,工作满意度受员工对酒店领导者企业社会责任取向感知、工作报酬、工作环境和工作关系的影响,其中,工作报酬影响最大,其次为员工对领导者社会责任取向的感知、工作环境和工作关系;通过控制工作报酬、工作环境和工作关系等要素,员工对领导者法律责任取向的感知对工作满意度的正向影响最大,其次为员工对领导者经济责任取向的感知,而员工对领导者道德责任取向的感知对工作满意度影响不显著,员工对领导者慈善责任取向的感知与工作满意度不相关.这一研究结果对降低员工离职率,培养酒店社会责任氛围具有一定的参考价值.     

如何提高饭店业一线员工的服务补救绩效:模型与实证

文章应用巴顾兹(Bagozzi)的态度模型,采用结构方程建模方法,构建并验证了基于饭店业一线员工感知视角的服务补救绩效预测模型。实证结果表明:(1)一线员工对授权、培训、奖励以及对饭店进行顾客抱怨管理的感知正向影响其工作满意度;(2)顾客抱怨管理和授权不仅通过一线员工情感变量(工作满意和情感承诺)的中介作用间接正向影响服务补救绩效,还能够直接预测服务补救绩效;(3)一线员工的情感变量是解释员工培训和奖励正向影响其服务补救绩效的完全中介变量;(4)工作满意直接正向影响一线员工的情感承诺,而在工作满意和服务补救绩效之间的间接正向影响关系中,情感承诺变量起到了全部中介效应。文章最后总结了对服务补救理论和饭店业管理实践的贡献。     

差别对待能激励酒店员工吗？——心理资本、领导成员交换与敬业度的跨层次研究

心理资本高的敬业的员工可为组织带来正能量,探讨激发员工积极心理资源与工作态度的边界条件对于优化酒店业人力资源管理具有重要意义。文章基于积极情绪的拓展-建构理论和平等匹配模式,通过对10家高星级酒店48个工作团队的226位员工进行调查,运用结构方程及多层次线性模型,从员工个体和工作团队两个层次探讨酒店员工心理资本、领导成员交换与敬业度之间的关系。结果表明：（1）在个体层次,心理资本对领导成员交换与敬业度均有显著正向影响,下属感知领导成员交换在心理资本与敬业度之间发挥部分中介作用;（2）团队层次领导成员交换质量对个体层次敬业度有跨层次影响,且团队层次的领导成员交换差异在该层次的领导成员交换质量和个体层次敬业度的关系中起负向调节作用,即与领导成员交换差异较大的团队相比,在差异较小的团队中,团队整体领导成员交换质量对个体层次敬业度的正向影响更大。换言之,公平对待更能激励酒店员工提升敬业度。     

酒店实习生工作满意度及其影响因素研究

酒店实习生作为酒店人员组成中的一个特殊部分,其工作满意度的高低对实习酒店和酒店行业来讲都有重要影响.但实习生的员工满意度与一般员工相比,有相同之处,也有不同之处.本文通过因子分析和分步多元回归分析,在控制了性别、学历、实习时间、酒店类型、实习部门、实习职位等变量的情况下,发现显著影响酒店实习生满意度的因素最主要的有三类:工作报酬、领导水平和培训机会.而被多数学者证明的对员工满意度有重要影响的"人际关系"对实习生的工作满意度没有显著影响.进一步分析表明,实习生的工作满意度及三类影响因素与其行业前景预期和留职意向显著相关.     

组织公正对餐饮业员工工作态度和行为的影响研究

文章以组织行为学为理论基础,运用结构方程模型研究了组织公正对餐饮业员工工作态度和行为的影响。研究结果显示：（1）分配公正和程序公正都对工作满意和组织承诺有显著的正向影响,但程序公正的影响较大;（2）程序公正对分配公正有显著的正向影响;（3）工作满意和组织承诺正向相关,并且都对员工的离职意向和顾客导向有显著的影响;（4）就影响方向来说,工作满意和组织承诺负向影响员工的离职意向,正向影响员工的顾客导向。文章最后提出了管理建议、研究的不足之处和进一步研究的方向。     

酒店员工安全服务能力与安全服务绩效的驱动关系

员工个体的安全服务能力与员工安全服务绩效的关系是一个影响安全投入决策的重要问题。该研究构建了员工安全服务知识、态度、技能等服务能力要素与员工安全服务绩效间的影响模型,并以酒店业员工作为调研对象,通过结构方程模型进行了实证检验。研究发现,员工安全服务知识、态度和技能等三要素对员工安全服务绩效有显著的正向影响,员工安全服务知识对安全服务绩效具有基础性作用,员工安全服务态度和技能在员工安全服务知识与员工安全服务绩效间具有完全中介效应。     

酒店员工领导信任及其与工作满意度的关系

酒店企业员工高流失现象源于多种因素的相互作用,其中,员工领导信任及其与员工工作满意度之间的关系则是重要因素之一.以张家界市酒店企业为例,采用文献法、访谈法获得概念模型和量表,对企业员工实施问卷调查,运用SPSS、AMOS等统计软件分析数据和验证模型,探讨员工领导信任的结构、员工领导信任的影响因素及其与员工工作满意度之间的关系.研究结果表明:员工领导情感信任主要受领导公正行为、指导行为、关怀行为、控制权分享行为和信息沟通这5个方面因素的影响,领导正直行为、角色胜任行为、信任倾向和制度规范这4个因素对员工领导情感信任影响不显著.在情感信任的影响因素当中,领导关怀行为的标准化路径系数最大(0.69).员工领导认知信任主要受领导正直行为、角色胜任行为、公正行为、指导行为、控制权分享行为、信任倾向、制度规范和信息沟通这8个方面因素的影响,关怀行为对员工领导认知信任影响不显著.在认知信任的影响因素当中,领导公正行为的标准化路径系数最大(0.50).员工领导情感信任和认知信任均对员工工作满意度产生显著正向影响,且认知信任较情感信任对员工工作满意度的影响更大.     

工作生活质量何以影响员工绩效?——基于旅游业一线员工的调查

该研究从任务绩效和顾客导向的组织公民行为两个视角探讨工作生活质量对员工绩效的影响机制.采用成熟量表对旅游业一线从业员工进行了调查,利用主管-员工的622份配对样本进行了实证检验.结果显示,旅游业一线员工的工作生活质量对于其工作的任务绩效和顾客导向的组织公民行为均有显著的正向影响,并且在对顾客导向的组织公民行为的影响作用过程中,敬业度起到了部分中介作用.此外,在工作生活质量对员工敬业度的影响中,员工的学习目标定向起到了调节作用.高学习目标定向的员工,工作生活质量正向影响其敬业度.而低学习目标定向的员工恰恰相反,其工作生活质量负向影响敬业度.最终,结合实证分析结果,阐释了其对于旅游业管理的意义并给出了实践建议.     

酒店绿色实践对个体亲环境行为的影响机制研究

个体亲环境行为对酒店的可持续发展具有重要意义，但已有研究缺乏对酒店特定空间情境的关注。绿色实践是酒店构建绿色空间情境的重要途径。文章以长沙市4家金叶级绿色饭店为研究案例，基于刺激-机体-反应理论，采用质性研究与结构方程模型相结合的方法，探讨了酒店绿色实践对个体亲环境行为的影响机制。质性研究结果表明，酒店绿色实践主要包括四大维度，分别为环境设计、绿色产品、绿色宣传和绿色管理。结构方程模型结果表明：（1）无论顾客组还是员工组，环境设计、绿色产品、绿色宣传和绿色管理对个体亲环境行为具有显著正向影响；（2）地方依恋在绿色实践与亲环境行为之间具有中介效应，由于绿色产品对员工地方依恋无显著影响，导致员工组在此维度上的中介效应不显著，而其他中介效应均显著；（3）在绿色管理维度，地方依恋的中介效应存在显著的组间差异。该研究强调了酒店空间情境的作用，有利于丰富酒店内亲环境行为的研究，并对酒店的绿色运营管理具有一定的启示。     

The Effect of Jay-customer Behaviors on Employee Job Stress and Job Satisfaction

Guest-contact employees are often exposed to stressful situations resulting from jay-customer behaviors. The purpose of this study is to examine how jay-customer behaviors (customer incivility and customer aggression) affect employee job stress and job satisfaction. Surveys of 210 participants working as guest-contact employees in hospitality organizations were analyzed. The results show that customer incivility leads to decreased employee job satisfaction, which is fully mediated by increased job stress. The findings of this study suggest that hospitality managers should acknowledge the negative impact of jay-customer behaviors on employees and make efforts to minimize this effect through training, procedures, and supporting systems.     

Call Center Employees’ Intent to Quit: Examination of Job Engagement and Role Clarity

Call centers have become a valuable resource for hotels in managing customer experiences and relationships, yet they have also developed a reputation for being a stressful job which has made it a significant challenge to retain employees. Given high turnover rates among call center employees, it is important for hospitality firms to understand the factors influencing their intentions to quit. This study focuses on job engagement and role clarity to examine hotel call center employees’ intent to quit. The survey results of call center employees at a large resort hotel suggest that job engagement significantly influences the hotel call center employees’ intent to quit after accounting for job satisfaction and organizational support. Role clarity, however, is not related to intent to quit. Managerial implications and recommendations for increasing employee job engagement are discussed.     

A diary study of work consequences for hotel employees victimized by supervisor from a demand-resource perspective on employee emotions

How would perceiving oneself as a victim of abusive supervisor behavior affect one’s work attitudes? This study examines the mediating role of emotional change on the detrimental work outcomes caused by hotel employees’ perceived victim identity. It further investigates how emotional exhaustion moderates the relationship between perceived victim identity and two outcome variables, daily job satisfaction and work engagement. The research hypotheses were tested by a multi-level analysis (cf., hierarchical linear modeling) using a sample of 128 hotel employees in China who took surveys twice per day over 14 consecutive days. The findings show that emotional change significantly mediates the negative effect of hotel employees’ perceived victim identity on their work attitudes, and emotional exhaustion moderates this effect such that higher exhaustion exacerbates the negative relationship. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings for hospitality researchers and practitioners are discussed.     

The Development of an Instrument to Address the Negative Perception of Hospitality Jobs

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to introduce a new construct that would assist in understanding employee attitudes and behaviors in hospitality sector jobs. The research introduces job-esteem and justifies it as a unique construct worthy of further study. Job-esteem is defined as the level of respect and dignity an individual believes is associated with his/her job. An instrument was developed to assist in measuring the level of job-esteem found in hospitality employees. The instrument was then administered to 75 employees of a large hotel chain in Hawaii. Tests show the instrument meets reliability standards.     

The Impact of Employee Training on Job Satisfaction and Intention to Stay in the Hotel Industry

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Training has been found to link with improving job satisfaction and employee intention to stay. The purposes of this research were to investigate the expectations and perceptions of training quality between hotel managers and employees, and to suggest implications for improving training quality and increasing training satisfaction, job satisfaction, and intention to stay among employees in the hotel industry. The conceptual model of this study was developed based on SERVQUAL and the ServiceProfit Chain model. T-test showed that employees perceived low training quality, which suggested employees were not satisfied with training quality and that training quality needed improvement. Results of regression analysis showed that training was positively related to training satisfaction and job satisfaction. Job satisfaction led positively to intention to stay. The indirect effect of training quality on intention to stay was mediated by job satisfaction. This study suggests more understanding of the importance of training quality and its consequences, and to pay more attention to employee training.     

Why hotel employees care about Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Using need satisfaction theory

The aim of this paper is to investigate hotel employees’ the perception of CSR practices of their firms, within the foundations of need satisfaction theory. The proposed model examines the relationships among types of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Quality of Work Life (QWL), job satisfaction, and the levels of job position. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to test the relationships in the model. The results demonstrate that hotel employees’ perceived CSR had a positive effect on their basic and growth needs of QWL and QWL led to job satisfaction. The effects of CSR on QWL were stronger among managerial level employees compared to lower level ones. The findings provide better insights to the underlying mechanism through which type of CSR perceptions of employees influences job satisfaction in hospitality companies where these internal stakeholders become a key to attain competitive advantages.     

Thinking job embeddedness not turnover: Towards a better understanding of frontline hotel worker retention

This article reports the findings of a study of 327 Australian hotel frontline employees using a survey of job embeddedness. The research provides a novel application of the job embeddedness construct to the hospitality industry, not only validating the factor structure of the job embeddedness scale, but also investigating the relationship between job embeddedness and other job-related attitudes that influence employee turnover. Findings indicated that a six factor solution is the best explanation. Testing a model of the embeddedness-commitment and embeddedness-turnover relationship, the embeddedness dimensions of organizational sacrifice and community links displayed a positive relationship with organizational commitment. A negative relationship was found between organizational sacrifice and intentions to leave, while a positive relationship was found between community links and intentions to leave. One implication for hospitality managers is that there is an opportunity for hotel organizations to increase the job embeddedness of their employees by increasing the perceived costs of leaving.     

That's Not Fair!

ABSTRACT

Organizational commitment has been shown to be significantly negatively related to employee turnover. Given the high incidence of employee turnover in the hospitality industry, practitioners and academics alike should be focused on a more complete understanding of this phenomenon. The present study is an exploration into the identification of the relationships among organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and organizational justice. The study was conducted with employees of a major casino-hotel. Results indicated that organizational justice has an indirect positive impact on organizational commitment by working through job satisfaction. Practical implications and suggestions for future research are discussed.     

How Does the Work Status Affect Employees’ Job Attitude and Behavior in the Hotel Industry?

The study focuses on how work status impacts employees’ perception of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job performance in the hotel industry. Also, it explores whether supervisors perceive employees’ job attitudes and behavior in the same way as they perceive. Data were collected from a self-administered survey for five-star hotel employees and supervisors in Seoul, South Korea. A total of 335 valid responses were collected from 280 employees and 65 supervisors and analyzed by using structural equation modeling. The results of the study indicated that nonstandard employees expressed higher job satisfaction and higher organizational commitment but perceived lower job performance than standard employees did. Work status had no significant moderating effect on the relationships between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job performance; however, the results of this study indicated that supervisors’ perceptions of nonstandard employees’ job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and job performance were quite different from those of the nonstandard employees themselves. This study suggests that hotel operators should develop strategies to fully utilize nonstandard employees who reveal potential for quality service to guests.     

Big Five Personality Traits and Turnover Intention Among Thai Hotel Employees

This study hypothesized that the Big Five personality traits predicted turnover intention, and that hospitality competency and job satisfaction mediated the relationship of the Big Five personality traits to turnover intention among 183 Thai hotel employees. Regression analysis with bootstrapping was used to test the direct and mediation effects. Results supported two hypotheses: the Big Five personality traits negatively predicted turnover intention and job satisfaction mediated the relationship of the Big Five personality traits to turnover intention while hospitality competency did not. Thai hotel employees’ Big Five personality traits were related to their job satisfaction to predict their turnover intention.