英文摘要 |
Working in an environment where provides happiness to visitors, amusement parks employees usually have to disguise their true feelings. Such emotional labor might cause job dissatisfaction. In order for better job satisfaction of amusement park frontline employees, the primary purposes of this study were to test (1) the relationship between job burnout and job satisfaction and the moderating effects of emotional intelligence on (2) the relationship between emotional labor and job burnout, and (3) the relationship between emotional labor and job satisfaction. A total of 212 valid questionnaires were filled out by current employees of amusement parks in Taiwan in late 2016. The result of the analysis partially supports the moderating effect of emotional intelligence. Specifically, it showed that the emotional intelligence does not moderate the relationship between the emotional labor and job burnout. However, it moderates the relationship between the interactional emotional labor and job satisfaction. The results show that for high emotional intelligence employees, the stronger the international emotional labor, the lower the job satisfaction, but for the low emotional intelligence employees, the stronger their emotional labor, the higher their job satisfaction. In addition, the job burnout is negatively related to job satisfaction. Further discussions and applications were mentioned. |