Abstract

The purpose of this study is understanding the effects of hotel kitchen department head's leadership style on chef's affirmative involvement and providing effective human resources management data of hotel restaurant kitchen organization by examining the moderating effects of chef's personality type (A type / B type) in leadership style and affirmative involvement relationship. The targets of this study were 391 chefs who worked for 1 year and longer at a five-star hotel in Seoul and questionnaire survey was conducted in February 2020. First, hotel kitchen department head's leadership styles had been classified based on the theory of transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and servant leadership and all three leadership styles have been found to have significant influence on affirmative involvement. Second, the moderating effects of personality type in the influencing relationship between hotel kitchen department head's leadership style and chef's affirmative involvement have been found as the following. Transformational leadership and servant leadership have influence on affirmative involvement of both personality types and transactional leadership has been found to influence the affirmative involvement of B personality type. As a result of verifying the moderating effects of personality type, the moderating effects of personality type have been found to play the role of meaningful moderating variable in the influencing relationship between leadership style and affirmative involvement

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