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Tuchen S, Nazemi M, Ghelfi-Waechter SM, Kim E, Hofer F, Chen CF, Arora M, Santema S, Blessing L. Experiences from the international frontlines: An exploration of the perceptions of airport employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. JOURNAL OF AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT 2023; 109:102404. [PMID: 37020924 PMCID: PMC10050281 DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2023.102404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Revised: 03/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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The aviation industry is one of the sectors that has been heavily impacted by the pandemic. While the major body of literature has focused on passenger experience and behaviour, this study focuses on airport employees instead-their experiences, perceptions, and preferences following the emergence of COVID-19. More than 1000 participants from 4 major airports-Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, Singapore Changi Airport, Taipei Taoyuan Airport, and Zurich Airport-representing over 10 different occupations, have provided a variety of sentiments about the airport as an employment ecosystem in the wake of COVID-19. Quantitatively and qualitatively surveying four different airports enabled a cross-border analysis of the results to identify interesting geographic contrasts, as well as global themes, among the responses. Regional differences regarding, the feeling of preparedness, confidence in measures, and optimism are presented. A significant difference in confidence in non-pharmaceutical measures between employees from Asian and European airports is shown. Wants and needs such as better physical/IT workplace infrastructure and more flexibility regarding job scope and hours are pointed out. The results of this research provide insights for future airport employee experience research by outlining areas to study in greater detail. Furthermore, practical implications for airport stakeholders and companies arising from the challenges experienced by the workforce are laid out to provide guidance to prepare for similar circumstances in the future and navigate the aftermath of and recovery from the pandemic.
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Affiliation(s)
- Stefan Tuchen
- SGP Aviation, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372, Singapore
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- SGP Aviation, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372, Singapore
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- Zurich State Police - Airport Division/Research and Development, P. O. Box 8058, Zurich, Airport, Switzerland
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- Department of Design, Organization, and Strategy (DOS), Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Technical University of Delft (TU Delft), Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE, Delft, the Netherlands
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- Brainability GmbH, Sonneggstrasse 86, CH-8006, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Transportation and Communication Management Science, National Cheng Kung University, 1 University Road, Tainan, 701, Taiwan
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- School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3FB, United Kingdom
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, Skempton Building, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department of Design, Organization, and Strategy (DOS), Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Technical University of Delft (TU Delft), Landbergstraat 15, 2628 CE, Delft, the Netherlands
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- SGP Aviation, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), 8 Somapah Road, 487372, Singapore
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Liu-Lastres B, Huang WJ, Bao H. Exploring hospitality workers' career choices in the wake of COVID-19: Insights from a phenomenological inquiry. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT 2023; 111:103485. [PMID: 37034030 PMCID: PMC10070785 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2023.103485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2022] [Revised: 03/09/2023] [Accepted: 04/01/2023] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The COVID-19 pandemic severely hit the hospitality industry and caused employees concerns over health, finance, and well-being. These challenges may trigger their decisions to leave the profession, leading to major talent crises in the industry. Guided by the transactional model of stress and coping and the career construction theory, this study explored how their experiences with the pandemic affected their career choices moving on. A phenomenological approach was adopted, and 31 current and past hospitality employees were interviewed. The findings supported the conceptual model and addressed the connection between stress management and career decisions among the participants. It is also noted that, besides generational differences, most participants' career decisions at this critical moment were influenced by their personality traits, industry involvement, and employer-employee relationships. Thus, to create a sustainable, resilient, and engaged workforce, hospitality practitioners must commit to crafting positive relationships with their employees both in regular and crisis times.
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- Bingjie Liu-Lastres
- Department of Tourism, Event, and Sport Management, School of Health and Human Sciences, Indianapolis, USA
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- School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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- Department of Tourism, Event, and Sport Management, School of Health and Human Sciences, Indianapolis, IN 46220, USA
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Kim J, Kim SS, Jhang J, Doust NAS, Chan RYK, Badu-Baiden F. Preference for utilitarian or hedonic value options during a pandemic crisis: The moderation effects of childhood socioeconomic status and sensation-seeking. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT 2023; 110:103427. [PMID: 36718182 PMCID: PMC9874407 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2023.103427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2021] [Revised: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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This research investigated hospitality consumers' relative preferences for utilitarian or hedonic value under COVID-19 pandemic conditions. A series of four experiments and one secondary data analysis showed that the salience of the infectious disease threat increased consumers' preferences for hospitality options that provide relatively more utilitarian than hedonic value. Additionally, we identified two individual differences (i.e., childhood socioeconomic status (SES) & sensation-seeking) that moderated the effect of the infectious disease threat on the preferred hospitality consumption value. Specifically, the higher the childhood SES, the higher was the preference for the utilitarian value option, and the lower the level of sensation-seeking, the greater was the preference for the utilitarian value option. This research extends our understanding of the influence of the infectious disease threat on preference changes in hospitality decisions.
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- Jungkeun Kim
- Department of Marketing, Auckland University of Technology, 120 Mayoral Drive, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- School of Hotel & Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 17 Science Museum Road, TST East, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Department of Marketing and Management, College of Business, University of Central Arkansas, COB 312K, Conway, AR 72035, USA
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- Department of Marketing, Auckland University of Technology, 120 Mayoral Drive, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- Department of Marketing, Auckland University of Technology, 120 Mayoral Drive, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
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- Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, 30 Good Shepherd Street, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Menon D, Gunasekar S, Dixit SK, Das P, Mandal S. Present and prospective research themes for tourism and hospitality education post-COVID19: A bibliometric analysis. JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM EDUCATION 2022; 30:100360. [PMID: 34840528 PMCID: PMC8606301 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhlste.2021.100360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2021] [Revised: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 11/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Academic research in tourism and hospitality sector adds value directly to the way the industry grows and develops. Scholars in this area struggle with the pressures to publish in high ranking journals. The present study attempts to help doctoral students and tourism educators in identifying emerging themes in the tourism and hospitality arising out after COVID-19 pandemic. Using bibliometric analysis, five broad areas of emerging research themes are identified. Such research would further help managers, tourism related state administrators, and firm owners to recover from the devastating impact of COVID-19 on the industry across the world.
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- Dileep Menon
- Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India
- School of Commerce, NMIMS University, Hyderabad, India
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- Department of Tourism and Hotel Management, North-Eastern Hill University, India
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- Xavier School of Communication, Xavier University Bhubaneswar, Plot No. 12 (A), Nijigadakurki, Harirajpur, District- Puri, Odisha, 752050, India
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- Department of Business Analytics, GITAM Institute of Management, GITAM (Deemed -to Be University) Rushikonda, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh-530045, India
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Wut TM, Xu JB, Wong SM. Crisis management research (1985-2020) in the hospitality and tourism industry: A review and research agenda. TOURISM MANAGEMENT 2021; 85:104307. [PMID: 36345489 PMCID: PMC9630659 DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Revised: 01/30/2021] [Accepted: 02/14/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The global tourism industry has already suffered an enormous loss due to COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) in 2020. Crisis management, including disaster management and risk management, has been becoming a hot topic for organisations in the hospitality and tourism industry. This study aims to investigate relevant research domains in the hospitality and tourism industry context. To understand how crisis management practices have been adopted in the industry, the authors reviewed 512 articles including 79 papers on COVID-19, spanning 36 years, between 1985 and 2020. The findings showed that the research focus of crisis management, crisis impact and recovery, as well as risk management, risk perception and disaster management dominated mainstream crisis management research. Look back the past decade (2010 to present), health-related crisis (including COVID-19), social media, political disturbances and terrorism themes are the biggest trends. This paper proposed a new conceptual framework for future research agenda of crisis management in the hospitality and tourism industry. Besides, ten possible further research areas were also suggested in a TCM (theory-context-method) model: the theories of crisis prevention and preparedness, risk communication, crisis management education and training, risk assessment, and crisis events in the contexts of COVID-19, data privacy in hospitality and tourism, political-related crisis events, digital media, and alternative analytical methods and approaches. In addition, specific research questions in these future research areas were also presented in this paper.
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- Tai Ming Wut
- School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, Hong Kong, China
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- School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HKSAR, Hong Kong, China
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Risk Management: Exploring Emerging Human Resource Issues during the COVID-19 Pandemic. JOURNAL OF RISK AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/jrfm14050228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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The unanticipated coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has hit global business heavily, disrupting the management of human resources across numerous industries. More than 500 articles (indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science) on the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on emerging human resources issues and related practices were published from 1 January 2020 to 31 January 2021. In this study, we conduct a systematic literature review on emerging studies in the business and management field to explore what the emerging human resource issues are during the COVID-19 pandemic and propose related practices to solve these issues. The analysis of the published literature identifies nine main human resource issues across 13 industries. The findings of this study suggest that COVID-19 has enormous impact on conventional human resource management and requires the theoretical and empirical attention of researchers. The propositions nominate related human resource practices to deal with emerging human resources issues and identify several research venues for future studies in this field.
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