Abstract

This study examines whether job satisfaction of cooks working in the luxury hotels in Seoul significantly differs from those in Busan. The data for this study was collected from randomly chosen luxury hotels located in both areas. Out of 264 cooks who participated in the study, 130 and 134 turned out to be from Seoul and from Busan, respectively. SPSS 14.0 version was used for factor analysis to combine job satisfaction variables, identifying five factors; competence development, work environment, salary and employee benefits, co-worker relations, superior relations. While this study used t-test for identifying whether there is a significant difference between the two cities and between the part of demographic variables, ANOVA was applied in other demographic variables such as education, age, job position, and income.

Keywords

• cook;
• job satisfaction;
• luxury hotels;
• job satisfaction variables;
• work area