The Impact of Work Stress Alleviating Strategies on Employee’s Satisfaction in Hotels

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Hotel department, faculty of tourism and hotels,Minia university

2 Hotel department, faculty of tourism and hotels,Sadat university

Abstract

Work stress has a growing attention in many countries in the world, These countries work hard to estimate the size of the losses caused by this phenomenon on a physical level and human. The study aims to investigate the impact of the stress alleviating strategies adopted by hotels on employee satisfaction. The study population is made up of employees working in four- and five-star hotels in Luxor and the Red Sea. The number of five- and four-star hotels at Luxor and Red Sea is 123 hotels, which are classified as 44 hotel managers in five-star hotels and 79 hotel managers in the four-star hotels. A structured questionnaire form was designed and distributed to a sample of 450 employees distributed as 300 employees in the five-star hotels, and 150 employees in four-star hotels. The results indicated that there is a significant impact of the stress reduction management strategies adopted by hotels on the satisfaction of workers.

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