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Evaluating the Causal Relationships among Organizational Support, Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction, and Service Quality in the Hotel F & B Department  

강종헌 (순천대학교 조리과학과)
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Korean journal of food and cookery science / v.19, no.2, 2003 , pp. 155-164 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine, in a service context, construct validity and generalizability of widely used and accepted measures of perceived organizational support, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and service duality, and to test each measures' predictive utility in this context with path analysis. Of 350 subjects, 309 subjects participated in the analysis. Descriptive statistics (frequencies), exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, zero-order partial correlation analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis were used for this study. The findings from this study are as follows. First, perceived organizational support significantly influenced job satisfaction, organizational commitment. and service quality. Second, Job satisfaction had a directional impact upon organizational commitment and service quality. Third, organizational commitment showed to have a predictive impart on service quality. Finally, the results of the study provide some insight into the types of internal marketing strategies that can be applied successfully by operators of hotel F & B departments.
Keywords
organizational support; job satisfaction; organizational commitment; service quality; confirmatory factor analysis;
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