Explore the relationship between relationship bonding、relationship commitment and turnover intention - example of the emotional labors employees in the food and beverage industry

• Main Authors: Chia-Wen Chang, 張嘉文
• Other Authors: 王世澤
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gf7vcr

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 生物產業管理研究所 === 100 === With the change of food consumption habits by the people in Taiwan and the fastfood junkies are increasing, the food and beverage industry becomes one of the most frequently contact and familiar industries. Due to the growing demands and dependence, the requirements are increasing accordingly. On the other hand, responding to such situation, the corporations have begun to instruct their front-line employees who directly contact with customers to express the most appropriate emotion and behaviors according to the corporation’s performance rules. Such work type is called emotional labor and the employees who follow the rules to work are called emotional labor employees. In the past, most of scholars focused their emotional labor studies on the results of effects of emotional labor on employees (such as emotional exhaustion, job burnout and turnover intention). The above-mentioned studies facilitate the operators in the service industry and academic circle with the consciousness of negative effects generated by the emotional labor work on the employees and organization. So how to improve the effects and keep the emotional labor employees becomes one of important issues for the beverage and food industry. However, fewer follow-up studies have continued to explore how the operators in the service industry should relax the above conditions generated by the emotional labor employees. Therefore, adopting the viewpoint of relationship marketing and with the emotional labor employees who work with higher turnover-rate beverage and food businesses as subjects, the study explored the relationship bonding types of organizational relationship, emotional labor employees’ relation commitment and turnover intentions. It aims to explore how different relationship bonding types (social bonding and structural bonding) of corporate relationship, under the controlled financial bonding, generate different relationship commitments (affective commitment and continuance commitment) for emotional labor employees and affect their turnover intentions. The results showed that under the controlled financial bonding, the social bonding might positively affect affective commitment whereas structural bonding may positively affect continuance commitment. Then affective commitment might further to negatively affect turnover intentions by emotional labor employees. Based on above-mentioned conclusions, the study made recommendations for management, limits of the research and future follow-up researches in the last part of the article for operators and academic circle’s references.