Staff Culture of Starbucks Part-time College Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.407How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Part-time job; Starbucks; College students; Ethnography
- Abstract
This article, which mainly discusses the staff culture of part-time college students at Starbucks, aims to offer insights into building satisfying staff culture and excellent working environment. The paper begins with a comprehensive description of the working site of part-time workers where we conducted out observation, applying the research method of ethnography into the study by making a general review of ethnographic observation and interview principles. The paper summarizes data from interviews with the targeted community and related individuals to elaborate on how socialization at working site enables part-time staff to better enjoy the working routine and results in more positive service attitudes towards customers. The passage also includes reflections upon the observation how the positionality of observers influence the research process.
- Copyright
- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Qitian Mao AU - Muzi Liu AU - Kejun Ye AU - Ken Qin PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/24 TI - Staff Culture of Starbucks Part-time College Students BT - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 2353 EP - 2357 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.407 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.407 ID - Mao2021 ER -