• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.41-55
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• 2014

This study made frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis using SPSS 18.0 for 225 culinary employees working for super deluxe hotels in Busan and Ulsan areas in order to analyze the effects of job embeddedness on job satisfaction, career commitment and turnover intention. Results are as follows: first, as a result of testing the effects of hotel culinary employee's job embeddedness on job satisfaction, it was found that fitness, sacrifice, and links have positive (+) effects on job satisfaction. Second, it was found that fitness and sacrifice of a hotel culinary employee's job embeddedness have positive (+) effects on career commitment. Third, this study showed that fitness and sacrifice have negative (-) effects on turnover intention. Fourth, it was found that job satisfaction has a negative (-) effect on turnover intention. Fifth, it was found that career commitment has a negative (-) effect on turnover intention. These findings indicate that the higher hotel culinary employee's job embeddedness is, the less their intention to change jobs becomes by increasing job satisfaction and career commitment.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.84-99
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• 2012

This paper investigated the effects of employee's personality on organizational citizenship behavior(OCB) and customer orientation in service business. Based on the literature search about personality, OCB and customer orientation, this study conducted a survey to total 207 service employees who engage in food service business. The findings of the research are as follows. First, service employee's personality consists of neuroticism, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and intelligence. Second, service employee's OCB is affected by intelligence, agreeableness, conscientiousness and extroversion of a service employee. Third, service employee's extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and intelligence positively affect service employee's customer orientation, and service employee's neuroticism negatively affect service employee's customer orientation. Fourth, service employee's customer orientation is affected by employee's OCB. The findings of this research shows that service employee's personality affects OCB and customer orientation.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.154-166
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• 2011

This research aims to analyze the effects of a service employee's personality on job fit and customer orientation in food service business. Based on total 164 samples obtained from an empirical research for service employees who engage in food service business, the findings of the research are as follows. First, the service employee's personality consists of extroversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness and intelligence. Second, the service employee's job fit is affected by agreeableness, conscientiousness and intelligence of a service employee. Third, the service employee's extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and intelligence significantly affect the service employee's customer orientation. Fourth, the service employee's customer orientation is affected by job fit. Based on the findings of this research, service employee's personality affect job fit and customer orientation.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.99-121
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• 2001

To develop and improve as the finest foodservice industry, it has to secure the best team organized by the most satisfied employees. It is very important for foodservice industry to have the organization efficiency and study all kinds of factors to be influenced by several conditions. This study was focused on some matters to achieve the foodservice industry's business goal as well as to satisfy the employees. 1, the writer, set up four hypotheses for the examination. First, there will be not an interrelation between the employee's satisfaction and sex, age, marriage, educational background, and eager level. Second, there will be not an intreation between the employee's satisfaction and work period, position, department and major. This study could get some result from the analysis suggested by the above hypotheses. The following are the further explanation including some outstanding feature from the analysis based on the human resource: first for the category about the level of job satisfaction evaluated by the census, foodservice industry employee's job satisfaction depends upon the atmosphere in which employes could enjoy their work. Even the promotion chance can be made in the environment of creative and active working condition. Finally, the promotion chance can be realize not through the employee's attitude assuming the motivation factor to be difference from hygiene factor, but through keeping their work carried out in various activity.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.78-86
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• 2016

This study is designed to investigate the impact of employee's awareness about corporate social responsibility on innovative behavior among frontline employees in the hotel industry. In addition, the present study seeks to demonstrate whether employees awareness about corporate social responsibility or innovative behavior varies according to gender, age, education level and employment type. In order to achieve the study goal, the data were obtained from frontline employees(Rooms division, F&B division) working in the 5-star hotels. And the data were analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, t-test, ANOVA and regression analysis were undertaken using SPSS(18.0). The results showed that gender, age and employment type were not significant factors to generate differences on awareness about corporate social responsibility. But the higher educated employee was likely to perceive the awareness about corporate social responsibility better. Employee's innovative behavior varied on all of gender, age, education level and employment type. In other words, employee who is male, in the older age group, in the higher educated level and the full-time position tends to do more innovative behavior. Implications based on the study results are also discussed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.711-720
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to understand the effects of hotel employees' physical attractiveness on person-job fit and to empirically analyze whether self-esteem and self-efficacy play a mediating role in the causality between an employee's physical attractiveness and person-job fit. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by 345 employees and the data were analyzed by frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. The primary results were as follows: Multiple regression analysis showed that hotel employee physical attractiveness had a positive significant influence on self-esteem ($\beta=.504$, p<.001) and self-efficacy ($\beta=.441$, p<.001). Also, employee selfesteem ($\beta=.281$, p<.001) and self-efficacy ($\beta=.478$, p<.001) each had a positive significant influence on person-job fit. As a result of analyzing the mediating role, the effect of hotel employees' physical attractiveness on person-job fit was partially mediated by self-esteem and self-efficacy.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.106-127
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• 2017

Most countries have their own culture that presents different types of behaviour. The employees' specific ways of working, according to each country, influence its organisation, thus cultural differences have become an essential issue in operating management. Therefore, this study explored how the different cultures based on Hofstede's paradigm interact within the specific Korean context. This study examined how cultural related HRM practices were enacted in the Korean hotel industry, how the frameworks of Hofstede's model impact the employee outcomes, including the concept of organisational justice. This study followed a quantitative approach which relied on a positivist paradigm to evaluate the different HRM practices at hotel workplaces with the view of employees. This study gathered a survey on 601 hotel employees in the deluxe sector. The analysis of quantitative data was undertaken using SPSS version 23.0 software and AMOS 23.0 to achieve the research aim for the study. This study contributes new findings to the research literature. The results of this study showed how Confucianism also plays a predominant role in understanding Korean culture, more than the Hofstede's original four dimensions of culture.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 2002

This is the study about the efficient operation management of family restaurant employee. This study focus on the establishment and proposal of the efficient management plan of family restaurant industry's worker by the result which was analyzed statistically. In the side of employee's management, It will have to try to become accomplished a policy of public welfare possible to understand and the both direction communication that it will be able to understand with each other to understand. Also the possibility of incentive in order to be, must endeavor as continuation of the holiday duration when is not the money compensation which is simple even from compensation dimension, the holiday system which is various. In the side of employee's development training as providing the chance possibility of ability development there is a possibility where a satisfaction the business enterprise of family restaurant industry's worker will lead and occupation it will feel and the continuous training against the field which the oneself inside the store is keeping it leads and the knowledge. In the conclusion, the study of the human resources and the efficient human resources who is the possibility the manager and worker for being satisfactory should be go on.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2013

This study was conducted from 10 February 2011 until 2 March 2011 targeting culinary workers in deluxe hotels in Seoul. The data from 161 copies of questionnaire were analyzed using SPSS 17.0 for the factor analysis and the reliability test, and the multiple regression analysis was performed to verify the hypotheses. The results are as follows. First, correlation among interpersonal attachment, job satisfaction and job attachment showed that stable attachment had a significantly positive(+) effect on job satisfaction and job attachment. Second, unstable attachment had a negative effect on job satisfaction. Moreover, there were no correlations between job satisfaction and job attachment by the types of attachment. Third, for the effect of interpersonal attachment on job satisfaction, the stable one had a significantly positive(+) effect on job satisfaction; however, avoidant and unstable ones didn't have a significant effect on job satisfaction. Consequently, the results of this analysis suggest the future direction of culinary workers.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.1-18
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• 2007

The purpose of this study is to investigate the properties of restaurant customer's choice and to present the desirable service of restaurants. The experimental data were collected from the questionnaire answered by 182 restaurant customers in Seoul. One-way ANOVA and $x^2$(Chi-square) verification analysis were performed with the SPSS WINDOW 10.0 program to investigate statistical significance of the data. As the results, it was revealed that the food factor was most important when the customers choose a restaurant. And then, the importance of the choice properties was in the following order, that is, the food factor, the hygiene and cleanness factor, the employee's service factor, the visiting convenience factor, the indoor mood factor, the menu factor, the amenity factor for children. In addition, it was confirmed that some choice properties of the customers are dependent on the general characteristics such as sex, age, occupation, income etc. Therefore, it is essential that restaurants should provide various services related with the choice properties by understanding the choice properties according to the customer's characteristics.