Today, the aviation industry is growing and developing around the world due to the increase in trade between countries and the improvement of individual living standards. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the aviation industry was at its best. Due to this...
Today, the aviation industry is growing and developing around the world due to the increase in trade between countries and the improvement of individual living standards. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the aviation industry was at its best. Due to this influence, flight attendants worked for flight hours close to the limit suggested by the Aviation Act. This caused excessive work stress both physically and mentally. Excessive work, insufficient wages for labor, and unfair operation of the organization led to conflicts with the organization, which in turn led to a decrease in loyalty to the organization. In order to resolve the conflict between these organizations and the flight crew, continuous research has been carried out. However, due to the impact of COVID-19, which started in 2019, the air transportation industry has gone through a period of downturn. In order to prevent the spread of the global COVID-19 epidemic, all countries have attempted to contain the epidemic through shutdown. Currently, with the development of various COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, the aviation industry is coming out of a recession and passing the time of WITH COVID-19. We are now preparing for the end of the pandemic and post-pandemic. However, during the time with the pandemic, the number of flights operated by airlines decreased rapidly, and the flight hours of flight attendants also decreased rapidly. The decrease in the number of aircraft operated caused the airline's bankruptcy and survival crisis. For airline workers, it caused new stresses such as reduced wages and uncertain working conditions, and created a different kind of stress from the excessive flight work before the pandemic. In the end, the job stress of flight crews is always present for various reasons, not just due to flight working hours. Various efforts must be made to increase job satisfaction by reducing job stress by solving the root cause.
As described above, based on the problem awareness related to the flight crew's job stress, this thesis studied the effect of job stress on the job satisfaction of flight crews using achievement desire, compensation satisfaction, and organizational fairness as parameters. And by comparing the demographic characteristics and the average of each variable, it was investigated whether there was a difference in the variables according to the characteristics of the group. According to the purpose of the study, questionnaire responses were collected from 250 flight attendants of domestic private airlines and statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 program. The research results are as follows.
Job stress had a significant negative correlation with job satisfaction, reward satisfaction, achievement need, and organizational fairness. Job satisfaction was confirmed to have a significant positive correlation with reward satisfaction, achievement need, and organizational fairness. However, although the correlation between job satisfaction and reward satisfaction was significant, the correlation was low compared to other variables. It was confirmed that reward satisfaction had a significant positive correlation with achievement need and organizational fairness. Achievement needs showed a significant positive correlation with organizational fairness.
By comparing the demographic characteristics and the mean of each variable, it was found whether there was a difference in the variables according to the group characteristics. There was no difference according to origin in reward satisfaction. On the other hand, it was found that there was a difference in compensation satisfaction according to the position. In particular, it was found that the co-pilot's compensation satisfaction was higher than that of the captain. Also, it was confirmed that there was a difference in compensation satisfaction according to marital status. Compensation satisfaction was higher for singles than for married ones. There was no difference in job stress according to origin. There was no difference in job stress by job position. There was no difference in job stress according to marital status. There was no difference in job satisfaction according to origin. There was no difference in job satisfaction in terms of job title and marital status. As a result of analyzing whether there is a difference in job stress by age, the average difference in job stress between those in their 40's and 50's was significant. In particular, it was found that people in their 40's receive more job stress than those in their 50s. In terms of job stress by company, there were differences by company. In particular, the job stress of Korean Air showed the greatest difference compared with that of Jin Air. However, there was no difference in job stress by university or age group. Regarding job satisfaction, there were no average differences by company or university. However, there were differences by age group regarding reward satisfaction. In the difference between reward satisfaction in their 40s and 20s, it was found that those in their 40s had a greater sense of reward satisfaction. There were no differences in compensation satisfaction by company. However, there was a difference in reward satisfaction by university. It was confirmed that Hanseo University had higher reward satisfaction than general 4-year universities. There were no differences in achievement needs by age group, company, or university. There were no differences by age group or company regarding organizational fairness. The average difference was confirmed by university of origin. In particular, it was found that those who graduated from Hanseo University had higher organizational fairness than the Air Force Academy, Korea Aerospace University, general four-year universities, and other universities.
Through the analysis of mediating effects by the structural equation model, job stress showed a negative causal relationship to job satisfaction, reward satisfaction, and organizational fairness. Also, organizational fairness showed a positive causal relationship with job satisfaction. On the other hand, no significant causal relationship was confirmed for reward satisfaction with job satisfaction. In particular, with respect to the mediating effect of compensation satisfaction and organizational fairness, the causal relationship between job stress and job satisfaction was confirmed. However, when compensation satisfaction and organizational fairness mediate in the middle, there was no causal relationship leading to job satisfaction. Also, due to the indirect effect of reward satisfaction, organizational fairness did not show any mediating effect on the path to job satisfaction.
Next, job stress showed a negative causal relationship to job satisfaction, achievement need, and organizational fairness. Organizational fairness did not show a significant causal relationship with job satisfaction. Achievement needs showed a very high positive causal relationship with job satisfaction. As a result, the results of the study related to the mediating effect of achievement needs and organizational fairness are as follows. A causal relationship between job stress and job satisfaction was confirmed. However, when achievement needs and organizational fairness were input as mediating variables, it was confirmed that only achievement needs played a mediating role between job stress and job satisfaction, and there was no mediating effect of organizational fairness. In other words, it was confirmed through this study that the achievement need has a very strong effect as a mediating factor that lowers job stress and leads to job satisfaction.
According to the summary of the major research results so far, the compensation system and organizational fairness of a company do not significantly affect job satisfaction by lowering job stress. However, it was confirmed that when individual achievement need increased, job stress decreased and job satisfaction increased. Through these research results, job satisfaction and organizational loyalty are increased by developing a program to satisfy achievement need to reduce the job stress of flight crew members. As a result, it is expected that it can be used as basic data for crew human resource management for stable flight operations.