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The Influence of Emotional Labor on Organizational Commitment and Job Satisfaction of Librarians Working at Public Libraries

  • Journal of the Korean Biblia Society for Library and Information Science
  • 2018, 29(2), pp.109-126
  • DOI : 10.14699/kbiblia.2018.29.2.109
  • Publisher : Journal Of The Korean Biblia Society For Library And Information Science
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : May 24, 2018
  • Accepted : June 26, 2018

Chan-Sik Cho 1

1동덕여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

Librarians, who provide the public with library services at public libraries, are employees whose jobs are often require emotional labor. The emotional labor of librarians working at public libraries can result in stresses caused by the discrepancy between the library’s emotional requirements and the librarian’s personal emotions, which may influence organizational effectiveness, such as organizational commitment and job satisfaction. In that, this study intends to examine the influence of emotional labor on the organizational commitment and job satisfaction of librarians working at public libraries. To do so, based upon the conceptual underpinning through literature reviews of librarians working at public libraries and emotional labor, this study constructs a theoretical framework of organizational commitment and job satisfaction of librarians. Using a questionnaire survey method, this study surveys 238 public library staff from 33 public libraries in the Seoul metropolitan area, statistically examines the response through the SPSS20 statistical package, and analyzes the relationship between and among the variables. Based on the analysis, discussion on the influence of the emotional labor on organizational commitment and job satisfaction of librarians working at public libraries follows.

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