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A Study on Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction of Employees in Hotel Industry: A Study with Reference to few Categorized Hotels in NCR


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The concept of job satisfaction of employees in hotel industry has great relevance for better development. The present study tries to examine the job satisfaction factors like compensation structure, training and development, supervision, communication, nature of work, affective commitment for employees in hotel industry in Delhi National Capital Region. Conceptual framework of the study was developed and the selected convenient sample size of 150 was determined.

Questionnaire having five point Likert type scale, ranking questions, having a mix of qualitative as well as quantitative research design was employed. Long employee attitude scale developed by H.C Ganguli was used for collecting primary data. Other statistical methods engaged to analyze the data were descriptive statistics, correlation matrix, chi square test, ANOVA and ranking of variables. The results of this empirical study show that there is a significant relationship between all the factors. Positive satisfaction levels with job were found among faculties and they would remain in their present jobs only if they have good compensation structure closely followed by opportunities for training and development and good supervision. The employees were found to be satisfied with communication cannels in organization.


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Vijit Chaturvedi
Lingaya's University, Faridabad (Haryana).

Abstract


The concept of job satisfaction of employees in hotel industry has great relevance for better development. The present study tries to examine the job satisfaction factors like compensation structure, training and development, supervision, communication, nature of work, affective commitment for employees in hotel industry in Delhi National Capital Region. Conceptual framework of the study was developed and the selected convenient sample size of 150 was determined.

Questionnaire having five point Likert type scale, ranking questions, having a mix of qualitative as well as quantitative research design was employed. Long employee attitude scale developed by H.C Ganguli was used for collecting primary data. Other statistical methods engaged to analyze the data were descriptive statistics, correlation matrix, chi square test, ANOVA and ranking of variables. The results of this empirical study show that there is a significant relationship between all the factors. Positive satisfaction levels with job were found among faculties and they would remain in their present jobs only if they have good compensation structure closely followed by opportunities for training and development and good supervision. The employees were found to be satisfied with communication cannels in organization.


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