2017 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The Staff Oasis: The role of staff break rooms for hospitality employees' wellbeing and performance
Project/Area Number |
17K13805
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Research Institution | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
Principal Investigator |
齊藤 広晃 立命館アジア太平洋大学, 国際経営学部, 助教 (30794812)
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Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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Keywords | Employee well-being / Hospitality Management / Service Management / HR Management / Emotional Intelligence |
Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
For AY2017, I undertook a number of activities for this project. Firstly, I conducted literature review in relevant fields, including emotional labour, emotional intelligence, stress, burnout, employee-wellbeing, and characteristics of hospitality workers. With literature review, I also identified the scales that I can use for developing survey questionnaire. With fundamental understanding of the research topic, I contacted the gatekeepers in Australia and Japan for administrating surveys later on. Four hotels showed their interests and agreed to participate in the project. I also had face-to-face meeting with a collaborator in Australia to discuss/amend the research plan and set the timeline for each task.
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Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Although I could not attend a conference initially planned (i.e., APacCHRIE in Indonesia) and conduct a pilot study due to restrictions on time and amended budgets, I completed many other tasks specified above (i.e., conducting thorough literature review in the relevant fields, developing survey questionnaire, receiving supports from four hotels for this project, and having face-to-face meeting with my collaborator to intensively discuss the project and relevant tasks.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In Fiscal Year 2018, I plan to undertake various activities for this project, which include participating APacCHRIE (a conference I could not participate in AY2017) to discuss my research topic with other academics. This participation will also help me to receive advice from several leading scholars in hospitality management field; -conducting pilot surveys in Japan and Australia; -looking for more hotels participating in my project; -administering a real survey in Japan and Australia (I, with my collaborator in Australia, will conduct the survey at the hotels participating in this project); -inputting the survey data into SPSS (by hiring research assistants, the collected data will be inputted into SPSS file)
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