호텔종사원의 대인커뮤니케이션이 서비스제공행동에 미치는 영향

The Effect of Interpersonal Communication of Hotel Employees on Service Providing Behavior: Focusing on the Mediating Effects of Emotional Empathy

The purpose of this study is to identify the effect of interpersonal communication and empathy on service providing behavior and to identify the effect of emotional transmission and empathy consideration on interpersonal communication and service providing behavior. 300 questionnaires were distributed to five-star hotel employees in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do for 8 weeks from June 3 to July 26, 2019, and 287 copies were applied to the empirical analysis. The results of the analysis with SPSS 24.0 showed that first, the cooperative type and the trust type of interpersonal communication did not have a significant effect on empathy (emotional transmission), but the professional type had a significant effect. Second, the cooperative type of interpersonal communication did not have a significant effect on empathy (emotional transmission), but trust type and professional type had a significant effect. Third, emotional transmission of empathy did not have a significant effect on service providing behavior, but empathy had a significant effect. Fourth, the cooperative and trust types of interpersonal communication did not have a significant effect on the service providing behavior, but the professional type had a significant effect on the service providing behavior. Finally, in the analysis of the influence relationship between interpersonal communication and service-providing behavior, it was found that empathy has a partial mediating effect on emotional transmission and empathy. Based on these results, the purpose of this study is to provide implications for innovating internal motivation and related internal marketing to improve the quality of service providing behavior of hotel employees.