scholarly journals The Trickle-Down Effect of Responsible Leadership on Employees’ Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Evidence from the Hotel Industry in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (21) ◽  
pp. 11677
Author(s):  
Hong Tian ◽  
Danni Suo
Keyword(s):  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Responsible Leadership ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Trait Activation ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
High Level ◽  
Trickle Down

Based on the trickle-down effect model, social learning theory and trait activation theory, this study explores the mechanisms of multi-level responsible leadership on employees’ pro-environmental behaviors in the hotel industry in China. The results show that responsible leadership positively influences employees’ pro-environmental behaviors; mid-level responsible leadership significantly mediates the positive relationship between high-level responsible leadership and employees’ pro-environmental behaviors; and the perceived role of ethics and social responsibility positively moderates the relationship between responsible leadership and employees’ pro-environmental behaviors. The results of this study provide empirical support for further analysis of the “black box” of responsible leadership on employees’ pro-environmental behaviors, fill the gap of the trickle-down model in leadership, and provide new directions for sustainable value creation in hospitality industry organizations.

scholarly journals A Mediated Moderation Model: Personality, Team Psychological Safety and Team Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Tarman Budianto
Keyword(s):  
Team Performance ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Mediated Moderation ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Trait Activation ◽  
Moderation Model ◽  
High Level

Team performance as the foundation of organization in dealing with the complexity of the work and increasing the its competitiveness. Literature have shown that team psychological safety is an important predictor of team performance. This study use Trait Activation Theory to develop and present a model that aims to find the interaction between personality, team psychological safety and team performance. Regarding personality framework, this study uses the perspective of The Five-Factor Model. The results suggest that: First, the indirect effects of Conscientiousness personality on team performance will be stronger in (a) work that requires freedom and (b) work with high attention/detail requirements. Second, the indirect effects of extraversion personality on Team performance will be stronger in (a) jobs that require high social skills, (b) jobs with a high level of competition requirements, and (c) work where someone must often deal with unpleasant responses. Third, the indirect effect of openness personality on team performance will be stronger in (a) work that requires freedom and (b) work with high requirements of creativity.

scholarly journals The Influence of Urban Sprawl on Air Pollution and the Mediating Effect of Vehicle Ownership

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 1261
Author(s):  
Aiping Tao ◽  
Qun Liang ◽  
Peng Kuai ◽  
Tao Ding
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Vehicle Ownership ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
Significant Negative Impact ◽  
The Impact

Based on the panel data of 224 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2003 to 2016, this paper empirically studies the impact of urban sprawl on air pollution and introduces a mediating effect model to test the mediating role of vehicle ownership concerning the impact of urban sprawl on air pollution. The research in this paper arrives at three conclusions. First, urban sprawl has a significant positive effect on air pollution, and this conclusion is still valid after solving the endogeneity problem and conducting a robustness test. Second, the results of mediating effect test show that urban sprawl indirectly affects air pollution through the partial mediating effect of vehicle ownership. By removing the mediating effect, urban sprawl has a significant negative impact on air pollution, indicating that the mediating effect of vehicle ownership is higher concerning the impact of urban sprawl on air pollution. Third, further panel quantile regression results show that the higher the level of air pollution, the weaker the mediating effect of vehicle ownership and the stronger the direct effect of urban sprawl on air pollution. These conclusions can provide some empirical support for solving the air pollution problems caused by urban sprawl in China.

Effects of coworker's idiosyncratic deals on witness's creative process engagement: roles of responsibility for change and perceived exploitative leadership

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Jie Huang ◽  
Chunyong Tang
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Psychological Contract ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Idiosyncratic Deals ◽  
Psychological Contract Violation ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Trait Activation ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
Contract Violation

Abstract Emerging research in the idiosyncratic deals literature is to examine its negative effects. Thus far, much remains unknown about how and when idiosyncratic deals are associated with employee creative process engagement. Invoking fairness heuristic theory and trait activation theory, we propose and test a model that coworker's idiosyncratic deals have a negative association with witness's creative process engagement through psychological contract violation. Furthermore, we theorize and test the combination of the responsibility for change and perceived exploitative leadership as important boundary conditions, associate interact with coworker's idiosyncratic deals to strengthen the positive impact on psychological contract violation, thereby reducing witness's creative process engagement. We use two time-lagged studies to provide support for these mediation and moderation effects, and also discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.

The relationship of individual spirituality and organizational spirituality with meaning and community at work

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (7) ◽  
pp. 986-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Badrinarayan Shankar Pawar
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Support ◽  
Workplace Spirituality ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Spirituality ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
Organizational Spirituality ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to carry out an empirical examination to assess the nature of effects an employee’s individual spirituality and organizational spirituality have on the employee’s experience of meaning in work and community at work facets of workplace spirituality. Design/methodology/approach This paper specifies and examines, using a cross-sectional survey research design, the empirical support for two alternative models – a direct effects model and a moderating effect model – of the likely influences of an employee’s individual spirituality and organizational spirituality on the meaning and community facets of workplace spirituality. Findings The findings indicate considerable support for the direct effects model but no support for the moderating effect model. Within the direct effects model, organizational spirituality had much stronger association than employees’ individual spirituality with the workplace spirituality facets of meaning and community. Research limitations/implications This study may encourage future research to examine other antecedents of workplace spirituality, and the moderators and mediators of the relationship between organizational spirituality and workplace spirituality. Practical implications It suggests to the practitioners that for enhancing employee experiences of workplace spirituality, organizational spirituality implementation is a more effective way than developing employees’ individual spirituality. Social implications The study indicates that employees’ spiritual needs of meaning and community at work can be better fulfilled through organizational spirituality implementation than through individual spirituality development. Originality/value This is an original empirical examination and its value partly comes from its research implications and practice implications.

scholarly journals Machiavellian Leader Effectiveness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna A. Genau ◽  
Gerhard Blickle ◽  
Nora Schütte ◽  
James A. Meurs
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Leadership Effectiveness ◽  
Political Skill ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Leader Effectiveness ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Trait Activation ◽  
Trait Activation Theory

Abstract. Research on the effectiveness of Machiavellian leaders has found contradictory results. By linking socioanalytic and trait activation theory to the Machiavellianism and leadership literature, we argue that political skill may explain these findings by moderating the relation between Machiavellianism and leadership effectiveness. Using a multisource design and moderated mediation analyses with 153 leaders, 287 subordinates, and 153 superiors, we show that leaders who are both strongly politically skilled and high on Machiavellianism successfully enact transformational leadership, mediating improved leader effectiveness. However, when leader political skill is low, high Machiavellianism is negatively associated with (subordinate-rated) transformational leadership, resulting in lower leader effectiveness ratings by superiors. We discuss these results in light of current research on Machiavellianism in leadership and work contexts.

scholarly journals HRM in Relation To Employee Motivation and Job Performance in the Hospitality Industry

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 12-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries J. du Plessis ◽  
Nalinh Douangphichit ◽  
Patrick Dodd
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Food Services ◽  
High Level ◽  
Main Factor

The hospitality industry refers to organisations that provide accommodation and food services for people when they travel. The hospitality industry is also known as a “people business”. The hotels and catering organisations underperform, still deliver inadequate services, and provide limited facilities compared to similar businesses in the same region. This can have a negative impact on the tourism industry in Laos. HRM potentially contributes to employee work performance in the organisation. The performance of employees in hotel organisations can be judged or measured by their attentiveness, their friendliness, their appearances, their attitudes, and the way they carry out and perform their assigned tasks. Most of the respondents feel that their organisations create the conditions whereby they are motivated to work harder. The hotel industry recognises the importance of training in relation to their work performed. The main factor that brings about high level of job satisfaction and motivation is salary.

scholarly journals Predictors of Likelihood of Adoption of Green Practices in Hotels: The Case of Abuja and Lagos, Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Ladi Muazu ◽  
Basri Rashid ◽  
Noor Azimin Zainol
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Partial Least Squares ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
General Managers ◽  
Green Practices ◽  
Path Modelling ◽  
Innovation Characteristics ◽  
High Level

Despite the high level of awareness of sustainable practices around the globe, and literatures on its adoption in businesses, studies showed very few studies are conducted in less advanced countries like Nigeria. Given the rising consumption of resources, apprehension for the environs and sudden realization among people for practices that are friendlier, the trend is gradually picking up in the Nigerian hotel industry. The hotel is facing challenges accepting green practices due to little information on green practice and its perceived benefits, government inability to enforce regulations on environmental sanitation, and absence of enlightenment promotion of green practice. This study strives to determine factors likely to motivate hotels to adopt innovative ways of operating in Nigeria. Based on Rogers’ theory of innovation diffusion, this study decided to establish perceived innovation characteristics, perceived environmental characteristics, organizational characteristics and stakeholders’ influence as determinants for likely adoption. Data was collected from General Managers of hotels (363 in number) in Abuja and Lagos. Using Partial Least Squares (PLS) path modelling, the findings indicate all perceived predictors positively correlated to likelihood of adoption.

Withholding Knowledge in Teams: An Interactionist Perspective of Personality, Justice, and Autonomy

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (12) ◽  
pp. 2009-2024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Pan ◽  
Qingpu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Job Autonomy ◽  
Overall Justice ◽  
Development Teams ◽  
Activation Theory ◽  
Trait Activation ◽  
Interactionist Perspective ◽  
Software Development Teams

From an interactionist perspective and drawing on trait activation theory, we examined the main and interactive effects of personality, overall justice, and job autonomy on knowledge withholding in a team context. Participants comprised 214 employees from software development teams. Results showed that employees with high conscientiousness and low neuroticism were less likely to withhold knowledge. Contrary to our expectations, job autonomy was positively related to knowledge withholding. Further, the negative relationship between conscientiousness and knowledge withholding was stronger in a high overall justice situation, whereas the positive relationship between neuroticism and knowledge withholding was stronger in situations of low overall justice and high job autonomy. Our findings highlight the differences between knowledge withholding and knowledge sharing, and show that high overall justice can compensate for less desirable personality characteristics, such as neuroticism and unconscientiousness.

Primary Care Patients' Reactions to Mental Health Screening

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-441 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Zimmerman ◽  
David T. Lush ◽  
Neil J. Farber ◽  
Jon Hartung ◽  
Gary Plescia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Primary Care Clinic ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Medical Patients ◽  
Care Clinic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Care Patients ◽  
High Level

Objective: The authors examined whether there is empirical support for the notion that medical patients are upset by being asked questions about psychiatric disorders. Method: Six hundred and one patients attending a primary care clinic completed the SCREENER—a newly developed, brief self-administered questionnaire that surveys a broad range of psychopathology. In addition, they completed a second questionnaire that assessed their attitudes toward the SCREENER. Results: We found a high level of acceptance by patients. The questions were judged easy to answer, and they rarely aroused significant negative affect. Fewer than 2 percent of the patients judged the questions difficult to answer, and fewer than 3 percent were “very much” embarrassed, upset, annoyed, or uncomfortable with the questions. Individuals with a history of psychiatric treatment and poorer current mental health reacted more unfavorably to the questionnaire. Conclusions: From the patient's perspective, it is feasible and acceptable to use self-administered questionnaires for routine screening of psychiatric problems in primary care settings.

Housing price and enterprise financing: does mortgage effect exist?

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujing Li ◽  
Nan Gao
Keyword(s):  
Financial Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Empirical Test ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Housing Price ◽  
Fixed Effect Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
High Level

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of the rise in housing prices on enterprise financing and also the sustainability and heterogeneity of this effect. Design/methodology/approach Empirical test, panel data, fixed-effect model, IV and 2SLS were used in this paper. Findings The empirical results indicate that the mortgage effect does exist, and the authors further analyze the heterogeneity of this effect by dividing the sample based on the degree of financial development and property rights; the empirical results reveal that the mortgage effect is significantly higher in places with the high level of financial development. Besides, compared to the SOE enterprise, the mortgage effect has more influence on non-SOE companies. Research limitations/implications The results indicate that the mortgage effect should be considered when regulating housing market, and in order to improve the financing capability of company, its profitability and financial market efficiency should be emphasized. Originality/value This paper not only confirms the existence of the mortgage effect, but also explores its sustainability and heterogeneity, which reveals the risk and bubble in the effect of house market on enterprise financing, and enlightens how to promote financing ability of company.

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