Would Organizational Climate and Job Stress Affect Wellness? An Empirical Study on the Hospitality Industry in Taiwan during COVID-19.

Pei-Ling Tsui

doi:10.3390/ijerph181910491

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitality employees face a tremendous amount of job stress due to the decline in revenue and close contact with people. This study has three aims: first, to analyse the status quo of organizational-climate job stress on employee wellness in the hospitality industry during COVID-19; second, to discuss the correlation between organizational-climate job stress and employee wellness in the hospitality industry; and third, to analyze the associations between of personal background and organizational climate on job stress and wellness in the hospitality industry. This research uses a survey method to examine these issues. Participants were employees of franchise hotel branches in Taipei City, which yielded 295 effective sample sizes from five chain hotels. The personal background factor questionnaire, organizational climate questionnaire, job stress questionnaire, and wellness questionnaire served as the main research tools. In this study, Factor analysis, Pearson Correlation and Multiple Regression Analysis were used for sample analysis. The results revealed a significant relationship between organizational-climate job stress with wellness. Personal background factors, organizational climate, and job stress would affect the wellness of employees. As a result, the present research provides empirical evidence for the impact of organizational climate and job stress on employee wellness in the hospitality industry in Taiwan during COVID-19. The study’s findings, as well as its theoretical and practical implications, are discussed. The main contribution of this study is that the results serve as a reference for hospitality business owners to design better organizational environments for their employees, plan human-resource-related strategies, and provide training for their employees during a pandemic.

Highlights

This study explores the associated of organizational climate and job stress on the physical and mental state of hospitality employees, with the expectation that more attention can be drawn to the work environments of hospitality employees and further precautions can be taken
It is worth noting that the mean value of the item “As long as I think it is correct, I would go ahead with it and there is no need to ask for instructions (M = 2.86)” in the Organizational Climate Questionnaire is smaller than the median, and the supervisor support stress dimension in the job content questionnaire (M = 2.79) is smaller than the median
We find from the analysis of job stress that the construct of “interpersonal stress” has the highest score, which means that employees feel the greatest increase in stress due to poor coordination and communication with colleagues during COVID-19

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Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. A working environment that attends more closely to the needs of employees would increase their willingness to spend more time and effort on their work tasks [1,2,3]. Organizational climate is an important concept that drives the aforementioned scenario. Organizational climate, an enduring quality of the internal environment of an organization, exerts impacts on the behaviours of organizational members [4]. Marinova and Park [5]

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