1.
ANTECEDENTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF EMPLOYEES’
JOB STRESS IN A FOODSERVICE INDUSTRY :
FOCUSED ON EMOTIONAL LABOR AND TURNOVER INTENT
Carrine Kezia Aulia : 102183022
5. INTRODUCTION
Service industry
Competitiveness of service organization
Determines their performance
Emotional Labor -> Important
Front-line customer contact point, greeting
Positive word-of-mouth, repetitive purchase,
positive corporate evaluation
EMOTIONAL LABOR
Requirement of a job
that employees
display required
emotions
toward customer or
other
EMOTIONAL LABOR
Requirement of a job
that employees
display required
emotions
toward customer or
other
6. INTRODUCTION
Double-edge sword
Positive influence upon performance of organization
Negative influence upon psychological pressure
Emotional labored group VS non-emotional labored group
Worse health condition
Lower job satisfaction & self regard
Most of past studies examined emotional labor’s relationship
with job satisfaction or performance
7. INTRODUCTION
This study considered :
The antecedents (emotional labor)
The consequences (turnover intent)
Mediate by job stress and emotional dissonance
11. METHODOLOGY – data collection
Five ranked family-style restaurants in Korea.
(in terms of sales, 2011)
338 questionnaires
12. METHODOLOGY – data collection
61.2 % of respondents were 20-29
years of age.
53.8 % had a community college
degree.
71.3 % had worked at the current
place for less than 5 years.
13. METHODOLOGY - instrument
Pilot test
Employees’ emotional labor >
Surface acting (4 items)
Deep acting (4 items)
Expression of felt emotion (4 items)
Employees’ emotional dissonance (3 items) >
Job stress ( 4 items) >
Turnover intent (4 items) >
Glomb and Tews
(2004)
Diefendorff et al.
(2005)
Brotheridge and Lee (1998)
Parker and Decotiis (1983)
Seashore et al. (1982)
20. Employee of food service perceive emotional dissonance through the
emotional labor in their job situation
H1 | EMOTIONAL LABOR > EMOTIONAL DISSONANCEH1 | EMOTIONAL LABOR > EMOTIONAL DISSONANCE
H1
21. H1
In case of service jobs that required contact with customer, employees’
making an effort to express the required emotions that are different from
actual emotions, significantly make them stress
H2 | EMOTIONAL LABOR > JOB STRESSH2 | EMOTIONAL LABOR > JOB STRESS
H2
22. H1
H2
H3 | EMOTIONAL LABOR > TURNOVER INTENTH3 | EMOTIONAL LABOR > TURNOVER INTENT
Increased mental and physical exhaustion can contribute to an increase in
turnover intent
H3
Employees were under mental stress when they were experiencing emotional labor in their duties and this stress had partial mediating effect of leading to turnover intent
The largest influence on employee turnover is emotional labor, some programs ……………………. should be held to improve employees’ work and emotional balance