英文摘要 |
Hotel operation is a service industry with particular emphasis on professionalism, enthusiasm, and delicate service. Therefore, the hotel front-line employees often manage their emotions to act or express only those requested by their organizations in order to satisfy hotel guests. Over the past two years the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global hotel industry hard, but hotel operators still tried to provide customers with alternative service by applying different service procedures. This paper seeks to explore whether changing service types increase or decrease hotel frontline employees' emotional labor and job burnout and to explore the impact on organizational commitment in the post-epidemic era. The Job Demands-Resources model (JD-R) was adapted as study framework; quantitative analysis and convenience sampling were used to survey the hotel frontline employees in Tainan City. 302 valid questionnaires were obtained (98.6% valid rate). The study used structural equation modeling (SEM) and regression analysis to test hypotheses and to examine the mediating and moderating effect. The result indicated that emotional labor has a positive effect on job burnout, job burnout has a negative impact on organizational commitment, emotional labor has a negative impact on organizational commitment, job burnout mediates the relationship between emotional labor and organizational commitment, and emotional intelligence moderates the relationship between deep acting and organizational commitment. The fit indices of the Job Demands-Resources model indicated a good fit to the frontline employees data. |