The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition (한국식품영양학회지)

The Korean Society of Food and Nutrition (한국식품영양학회)
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Comparison of Job Satisfaction of Employees by Major in Foodservice Industry

외식 업체 종사자들의 전공 특성에 따른 직무 만족도 비교

  • Pyun, Jin-Won (Department of Food and Nutrition, Suwon, Women's College) ;
  • Nam, Hae-Won (Department of Foodservice Industry, Suwon Women's College) ;
  • Hyun, Young-Hee (Department of Food and Culinary Art, Suwon Women's College)
  • 변진원 (수원여자대학 식품영양과) ;
  • 남혜원 (수원여자대학 외식산업과) ;
  • 현영희 (수원여자대학 식품조리과)
  • Published : 2006.12.31
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Abstract

Employee turnover and job satisfaction are the main concerns of Foodservice indusryy because of a high dependence on human resources. This study was carried out to find out the differences of job satisfaction of employees in Foodservice industry and identify the effects of job satisfaction on turnover intention by major at the college or university. In comparison of job satisfaction of employees by 3 groups of food-related majored, tourism-business majored, and other majored, there were no significant differences among groups. But in the correlation between overall and 6 factors of job satisfaction, there were all significant correlations in food-related majored and tourism-business majored employees. Employees in Foodservice industry were satisfied by different demographic characteristics according to what they majored at college. Statistically significant variables that affect to the job satisfaction were gender, employment status, length of employment, monthly income, working hour per week in the food-related majored employees and employment status in the tourism-business majored employees. Finally, among job satisfaction factors, intention to quit was negatively affected by supervision in food-related majored and tourism-business majored employees, but positively affected by job environment only in tourism-business majored employees.

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