• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.12 no.1 s.28
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• pp.22-36
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• 2006

This study examines the job satisfaction of cooks of school feeding. Sampling was taken among school feeding cooks except for those of Kangwon Province and Cheju Province. The factors affecting on the job satisfaction was investigated to find ways to raise the job satisfaction of cooks of school feeding. Four factors were extracted in all. It is found that these four factors have affected the job satisfaction of cooks of school feeding in order of working satisfaction factor(.493), co-worker communication factor(.463), job environment factor(.185), and advancement factor(.146). Accordingly, more opportunities for career advancement should be offered to raise the job satisfaction among them, and the establishment of better work environment and the optimum staff are urgently needed.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.11 no.4 s.27
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• pp.14-29
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• 2005

A study was carried out to get information on hotel cooks. We needed to obtain the information on the working environment and satisfaction of the cooks to improve the working environment, a culinary art training program and an efficient man power control program. This study surveyed 305 cooks who work for deluxe hotels in Busan. The results were as fellows: The great part(67.2%) of the cooks was male and less than forty years old (85.6%), 67.0% of the cooks graduated from college and they had over 5 years(33%) or 1${\sim}$3 years(32.0%) in their current work places. 74.8% of the cooks earned less than 1.5 million won in a month. The cooks had on the average 1.53 lieences per person, and the most popular ones were the Western style(55.1%) and Korean style(49.2%) culinary arts. The most work places of the male cooks were Western style(49.3%) and Japanese style(41.8%) restaurants, but those of the female cooks were Western style(49.3%) and Korean style(30.6%) restaurants. The male cooks have worked over 5 years(36.0%) or 1${\sim}$3 years(31.0%) at these work places and the working period of female cooks ranged overall. Job satisfaction was found higher than satisfaction of work places and had no connection with age, job ranks, level of salary and academic background. The higher the age, job ranks, level of salary and academic background were, the more all the cooks satisfied about their jobs and work places.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.12 no.2 s.29
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• pp.39-56
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• 2006

This study was intended for getting information on the job satisfaction and consciousness of 305 cooks working at deluxe hotels in Busan to improve culinary arts training and an efficient man power control program. The results were as follows. Most of the cooks were males(67.2%) and less than 40 years old(85.6%), 59.5% were cooks, 67.0% were graduated from college and 74.8% earned less than 1.5 million won in a month. 39.5% had not changed their workplace. The male cooks had transferred to some other workplace more than 2 times than female ones. The higher their age, job classification and monthly income were, the more frequently they transferred their workplace. The frequency of job transfer was the most significant factor in the age of $30{\sim}39$. 37.0% of the cooks were unsatisfied with their pay. They preferred the more highly ranked hotels(36.5%) and being independent(26.0%) if transferring workplace. They thought devotion was the most important factor for good cooks. They thought efforts, skills and human relationships were important for developing cooks. They answered pay suitable for their work was an important factor to improve the food enterprise. They thought Japanese and Korean cooking had the best prospect, and qualifications for a good cook were sincerity, efforts, careers and skills.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• v.35 no.10
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• pp.1104-1119
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• 2002

This study was to analyze the job of cooks of school foodservice. The purpose of this study were to examine importance of the present job and future-oriented job of cooks in school foodservice, and to compare the present job performance time with the future-oriented job performance time. The questionnaire was delveloped by focus group and pilot test. The work sampling was choosed to verify the objectivity of job analysis. The statistical software package was SAS 10.0. ‘Menu Management’, ‘Procurement’, ‘Receiving and Inventory control’ and ‘Cooking facilities Management’ of the present job was perceived significantly more important than the future-oriented job. ‘Procurement’, ‘Receiving and inventory control’, ‘distribution’ and ‘dishwashing’ of the future-oriented job was perceived significantly longer than the present job performance time. This study will be used to develop job specification for the cooks of school foodservice.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.175-186
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• 2007

This study was conducted to investigate how job attitude and organization absorption of hotel employees influence their job satisfaction and present a plan for development to the high level based on the result. It carried out the survey with 289 cooks of special grade hotels in Seoul area. According to the result, organization absorption raised by .677 when emphasizing job roles and it raised .141 when stressing the organization behavior. Furthermore, it revealed that job roles and the factor of organization behavior influenced(p<05) job satisfaction, while job roles affected job achievement(p<05). What is more, it appeared that the factors of organization absorption significantly affected satisfaction and achievement each in statistics. Considering such results, it can be presented that job attitude of cooks in special grade hotels who have optimistic mind meaningfully influenced organization absorption and job satisfaction. It showed that even though the job imposed on the cooks of special grade hotels are relatively high, organization absorption goes up as job attitude is positive, which means high productivity connecting with job satisfaction in the end.

• Korean journal of food and cookery science
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.138-145
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• 1996

This study is. aimed to investigate the realities and the job satisfaction of hotel cuisine employees to be occupied with the special grade of tourist hotel in Daegu. As the factors of job satisfaction for the cooks, the 5 items such as social reputation, job itself, human relationship with co-workers, the chance of promotion, and the stability of company and benefits were selected. And 21 subitems of them were also chosen. The 154 persons of all were examined in this study. For the establishment of the factors in the area of job satisfaction, the methods of Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ analysis and factor analysis were carried out. The propensities of employees and the differences of job satisfaction were examined by using x$^2$-test method and one-way ANOVA respectively. 1. In the area of males professional cooks were 89% with respect to age, 51.9% were found to be under 25 years of age which constituted the largest age group. 96％ of the cooks had graduated a high school or had a higher education Those who had four or more years of cooking experience were 46.8％ which constituted the largest group, while about 30% had less than one year experience. Approximately 50% of the cooks earned an average of less than W700,000 per month. Among these cooks most worked for western type food establishments. Even with their higher education, we found that their work term is short and their income, low.2. In the research on job satisfaction, the survey result found was in the order of: social security, the work itself, human relationships with their fellow cooks, the chances of promotion, and job security and benefits with index-values of 4.59, 3.98, 3.18, 2.94 and 2.52 respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.393-402
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• 1996

The purpose of this study was to get data on the job attitude of cooks. This study was surveyed 216 cooks who work for deluxe hotels at Pusan. The results were summarized as follow: 1. The cooks think that their devotion is most important source for the best cooking. The next are taste, quality of raw materials, skill and hygiene in order. 2. 57.9% of the cooks think that a degree of expertise their field are average, but 73.6% cooks believe that the degree of expertise is higher than the other restaurant cooks. 3. They think that a good cook should be sincere and have proficiency of skill, good human relationship and study attitude, but they also believe an academic background and knowledge is not important to be a good cook. A deficiency of knowledge about cooking is what cooks believe to be the greatest hindrance for progress of cooking skills. The next hindrance are, a shortage of endeavor and authority of management. 4. The cooks believe that the ability of cooking is most important for a promotion, the others are, in order, human relationship, career background and age. 5. The cooks show little satisfaction with their job, but express their unsatisfaction with their pay. Also the cook's social status is mean. 6. The cooks recognize that a change in hotel policy is most important for the cooking department of the hotel. The next are, in order, enlargement of working space, arrangement of equipments and hiring of experts. 7. The cooks think that Japanese cooking have the best prospect in a food and beverage enterprise, while Chinese cooking have relatively lower prospect.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.13-27
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• 2014

This study sought to examine the effects of job inconsistency of cooks in the food service businesses on job performance, and the effects of such causation on intention of changing jobs. For job inconsistency, cooks produce limited menu products due to the segmentation of jobs in the same industry, and can hardly exercise their skills obtained through education. Thus, 275 samples of job inconsistency were made to undergo frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlational analysis, and multiple regression analysis, using the SPSS 17.0 program. Hypothesis 1 was established as cooks' job inconsistency having a positive effect on job performance; thus, with regard to job performance factors, skill inconsistency (${\beta}$=-.432), and wage inconsistency (${\beta}$=-.250) had a negative effect on job performance, but education inconsistency (${\beta}$=-.048) did not have an effect. Hypothesis 2 was established as cooks' job performance having a significant effect on intention of changing jobs; thus, intention of changing jobs had a significant negative effect on job performance (${\beta}$=-.238). So if job performance was improved, the intention of changing jobs would be reduced. This study implies that: cooks who were engaging in the food service businesses experienced job inconsistency, and led themselves to having an intention to change jobs; in this process, individual cooks' job level inconsistency and their wage levels have an important effect on intention of changing jobs.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.157-168
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• 2009

The aim of this study was to improve the school meal service and promote customer satisfaction by showing the importance of the cooks' job in school. For this, the discriminant analysis of merchandise development policies based on customer participation strategies. It is based on the questionnaire survey conducted from July 1st to July 31st 2008 at five middle schools in Jeonlado because it is relatively easy to collect objective data. 144 copies of questionnaire were distributed to each school, from which a total of 120 copies were collected. Statistical techniques employed include the reliability analysis and the regression analysis. SPSS 12.0 package program is used for statistical analysis. The results of the test of hypotheses can be summarized as follows. The analysis shows that cooks' job has a significant effect on the school foodservice management. Therefore, it is necessary to make a cooks' job more efficient to contribute to school foodservice management.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.11 no.4 s.27
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• pp.150-163
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• 2005

If a licensed cook of a special-deluxe hotel restaurant and n family restaurant receives stress psychologically and physically, it will influence the interaction with customers who eat their food. Job stress is known to affect the kitchen operation and cause negative formation of interior and exterior customer management. This study wishes to present the method that can minimize the negative effect caused by stress, leading to an elevation of service quality that is offered to customers by removing those factors related to the stress of a licensed cook. This study established the range of targets to compare the cooks of super-deluxe hotel restaurants and those of family restaurants and to apply result of this research to whole licensed cooks is considered to have some limitations. Therefore, estimating job stress and turnover intention of general licensed cooks through comparison with tourist hotels and general restaurants should be significant hereafter.