Investigating the Relation between Ergonomics and Efficiency of Hotel Kitchen Staff

Document Type : Original Article

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Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, University of Sadat City

Abstract

The most valuable asset of an organization is related to its human resources. Managerial sciences have established new approaches and tools for work, to best use human actions to increase efficiency. This study concentrates on ergonomics as one of these approaches. Therefore, it investigates the awareness of kitchen staff about ergonomics. It also explores the relation between the ergonomics and the efficiency of the hotel kitchen staff. Questionnaire was developed to achieve these objectives. Correlations and regression analysis were used to analyze the returned 36 questionnaire forms collected from five-star Hotels in Cairo. The results indicated that hotel kitchen staff highly perceives the ergonomics practices. As expected, significant relationship was found between ergonomics dimensions and the work efficiency of the hotel kitchen staff. Especially, general physical activity, workplace design, and work environment (0.727**, 0.672**, 0.533**), respectively.

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