公仆型领导风格对员工服务质量的影响

本文作者对13家宾馆和餐馆进行了一次实证研究,探讨中、高层管理人员的公仆型领导风格和部门的集体情感性归属感对员工服务质量的影响。多层次线性模型分析结果表明,企业的公仆型领导氛围会通过部门的公仆型领导氛围,间接影响员工服务质量;员工感知的企业负责人的公仆型领导风格会通过员工感知的部门负责人的公仆型领导风格,间接影响员工服务质量。此外,部门的集体情感性归属感会调节员工个人的工作满意感对服务质量的影响,部门的公仆型领导氛围会调节员工的情感性归属感对服务质量的影响。     

员工心理受权与酒店服务质量关系的实证研究

授权管理措施是服务性企业提高服务质量的有效方法，而授权管理措施在企业内部的成功实施最终还要取决于服务人员的受权心态，即员工心理受权。作者在广州市两家四星级酒店进行了一次实证研究，探讨员工心理受权与服务质量关系以及培训、奖励等人力资源管理措施对员工心理受权的影响。数据分析的结果表明：员工心理受权包括工作意义、工作能力和个人影响力3个组成成分；员工心理受权的3个组成成分之间存在相互影响的关系；员工感知的个人影响力和工作能力分别对服务质量产生不同的影响；培训和奖励措施不仅影响员工心理受权，还对服务质量产生积极的影响。本项研究结果对酒店管理人员建立完善的培训和奖励体系，增强员工的心理受权感，进而提高服务质量有一定的指导意义。     

旅行社顾客心理授权、顾客参与及服务质量关系研究

顾客在企业授权措施影响下产生的对服务经历的控制感被称之为顾客心理授权.文章在文献研究的基础上,提出了一个包含顾客心理授权、顾客参与、员工服务质量、顾客服务质量和顾客满意感的研究模型,并通过对旅行社顾客的调查,对模型进行了实证检验.数据分析结果表明:(1)顾客心理授权与顾客参与是两个不同的概念,且前者对后者有显著的正向影响;(2)顾客参与通过顾客服务质量间接影响员工服务质量;(3)顾客服务质量和员工服务质量都会影响顾客满意感,且与员工服务质量相比,顾客服务质量对顾客满意感的影响更大.文章研究结果可以丰富学术界对顾客授权理论的研究,同时对旅行社授予顾客权力、鼓励顾客参与,提高顾客服务质量,进而提高顾客满意度有一定的实践参考价值.     

变革型领导对服务绩效的影响——多层中介模型

现有文献几乎没有涉及变革型领导对服务绩效的多层影响.文章构建并检验了变革型领导影响服务绩效的多层中介模型.数据采集于某知名服务型跨国公司内的多个来源与多个层次,包括223家分店(连锁餐厅)的208位管理人员与1690位一线员工.实证结果显示:个体层面的变革型领导与分店层面的变革型领导都可以显著提升员工的服务绩效;个体层面的心理授权部分中介个体层面的变革型领导与员工的服务绩效,分店层面的授权氛围部分中介分店层面的变革型领导与员工的服务绩效.因此,国内服务型企业既可以实行分店层面的变革型领导风格与营造授权氛围来提升员工服务绩效,又可以实施个体层面的变革型领导风格与增加员工心理授权来提升员工服务绩效.     

一般自我效能感对离职倾向的影响——以餐饮业员工为例

与各情景变量相比,员工个体心理特质对离职倾向的影响在国内研究得还相对较少.文章以412位餐饮业员工作为受试样本,用结构方程模型检验了员工一般自我效能感与离职倾向的关系.研究结果表明:一般自我效能感对工作满意和离职倾向直接产生影响,但对组织承诺产生间接作用,并且工作满意、组织承诺削弱一般自我效能感对离职倾向的影响.在论文的最后,指出本文的研究贡献和进一步研究方向.     

服务公平性、服务质量、组织形象对游客行为意向的影响——基于博物馆服务的实证研究

本文以博物馆游客为调研对象,探讨服务公平性、服务质量、顾客满意感、信任感与组织形象的关系,分析顾客感知的服务质量、顾客满意感、信任感、组织形象对博物馆游客行为意向的影响。结构方程模型分析结果表明：在博物馆服务环境中,（1）服务公平性包括交往公平性、程序公平性、结果公平性和信息公平性等4个组成部分;服务公平性4个组成成分对顾客感知的服务质量、满意感、信任感有直接或间接的影响,对组织形象有间接的影响;（2）顾客满意感和顾客感知的服务质量直接影响组织形象;（3）组织形象和顾客信任感对游客行为意向有直接的影响。论文的研究结论对指导博物馆的营销管理有一定的理论和实践意义。     

饭店知识型员工离职意图的成因分析——基于员工心理契约视角的实证研究

本文构建了一个包含组织承诺、工作满意作为中间变量的模型,较系统地探索了饭店知识型员工的心理契约是如何通过这些中间变量影响其离职意图的.本文以四川省星级饭店的管理层员工为样本进行结构方程模型分析,结果显示:饭店知识型员工心理契约中对饭店责任的认知不仅直接影响其离职意图,而且还通过组织承诺以及工作满意与组织承诺变量之间的关系间接影响其离职意图的产生.本研究揭示了饭店管理层员工的心理契约对于解释其离职意图所具有的重要价值.     

服务型领导会影响酒店员工的品牌公民行为吗?——一个跨层级模型的构建与检验

文章分析了服务型领导对员工品牌公民行为的影响,并以员工的组织认同和关系认同作为中介变量解释两者之间的内在作用机制.同时检验了权力距离氛围作为情境变量发挥的作用.采用配对样本的方式对12家澳门、珠海高星级酒店的一线管理者和员工进行问卷调查.应用阶层线性模型的分析结果表明:服务型领导对员工的品牌公民行为产生显著的正向影响;员工的组织认同感、关系认同感产在服务型领导和品牌公民行为的关系中发挥中介作用;权力距离氛围对服务型领导风格和组织认同、关系认同之间的关系发挥调节作用.     

个体与组织情景因素对旅游服务员工创新行为的影响

在竞争激烈的市场环境中,创新越来越受到旅游企业的重视.由于组织创新往往植根于员工个人的创意,并依赖员工创意的实施,员工是组织创新的微观载体,因此研究旅游服务提供商员工创新行为的驱动力就显得十分重要.研究关注个体与组织情景因素对员工创新行为的影响,同时探讨市场导向、组织学习氛围、自我效能感对员工创新行为的影响.通过对国内某旅游服务提供商320名员工进行问卷调查,对数据进行结构方程模型和回归分析,研究发现自我效能感和组织学习氛围对员工创新行为有正向的影响,市场导向正向调节自我效能感与员工创新行为的关系.研究结论为旅游服务提供商如何促进员工创新行为提供了启示.     

酒店员工领导信任及其与工作满意度的关系

酒店企业员工高流失现象源于多种因素的相互作用,其中,员工领导信任及其与员工工作满意度之间的关系则是重要因素之一.以张家界市酒店企业为例,采用文献法、访谈法获得概念模型和量表,对企业员工实施问卷调查,运用SPSS、AMOS等统计软件分析数据和验证模型,探讨员工领导信任的结构、员工领导信任的影响因素及其与员工工作满意度之间的关系.研究结果表明:员工领导情感信任主要受领导公正行为、指导行为、关怀行为、控制权分享行为和信息沟通这5个方面因素的影响,领导正直行为、角色胜任行为、信任倾向和制度规范这4个因素对员工领导情感信任影响不显著.在情感信任的影响因素当中,领导关怀行为的标准化路径系数最大(0.69).员工领导认知信任主要受领导正直行为、角色胜任行为、公正行为、指导行为、控制权分享行为、信任倾向、制度规范和信息沟通这8个方面因素的影响,关怀行为对员工领导认知信任影响不显著.在认知信任的影响因素当中,领导公正行为的标准化路径系数最大(0.50).员工领导情感信任和认知信任均对员工工作满意度产生显著正向影响,且认知信任较情感信任对员工工作满意度的影响更大.     

Assessing the effectiveness of empowerment on service quality: A multi-level study of Chinese tourism firms

This study tests relationships among three levels of empowerment—organizational, departmental, and individual—and simultaneously their cascading effects on frontline employees' service quality. Drawing on data from 1566 employee-supervisor pairs from 123 departments in 53 Chinese hospitality and tourism enterprises, results reveal a cascading mechanism across three levels of empowerment. Organizational empowerment climate influences employees' psychological empowerment through department psychological empowerment, and department psychological empowerment influences employees' service quality through individual psychological empowerment. Cross-level moderation analysis suggests that only within a high degree of organizational empowerment climate and service behavior-based evaluation does employees' psychological empowerment have positive effects on service quality. In response to the debate on the merits of empowerment programs in organizations, this study supports the usefulness of a cascading, contingency model of empowerment, and demonstrates full delineation of how and when empowerment across three levels influence frontline employees’ service quality.     

How to fuel employees’ prosocial behavior in the hotel service encounter

With mounting customer expectation for excellent service, frontline service employees’ prosocial service behavior is of great importance since it helps enhance customers’ perceived service quality, which is critical for maintaining a hotel’s competitive advantage relative to its comp set. Regardless of the importance of prosocial service behavior, role clarity, perceived organizational support, and psychological empowerment in encouraging employees’ prosocial service behavior has not received much attention. This study examines the effects of the above three predictors on the prosocial service behavior of customer-contact employees. The authors developed a conceptual model of prosocial service behavior and empirically tested it using structural equation modeling. The findings suggest that role clarity and psychological empowerment have a direct influence on prosocial service behavior. Psychological empowerment partially mediates the relationship between role clarity and prosocial service behavior and fully mediates the relationship between perceived organizational support and prosocial service behavior.     

Effect of Internal Marketing on Hotels: Empirical Evidence for Internal Customers

Internal marketing is a concept where firms apply marketing tools to attract and retain the best employees that will later affect business performance in monetary and nonmonetary terms. This article deals with the effect of internal marketing in hotels on their performance, based upon data obtained from India. Researchers identified the constructs of internal marketing: interfunctional coordination and integration, job satisfaction, job security, empowerment, employee motivation, vision of the organization, quality of service, employee development, strategic reward, and senior leadership. Researchers analyzed the effects of these processes on interactive marketing and thereby business performance. This study seeks to help organizations design their own internal marketing plan by outlining the important elements necessary to improve the business performance of hotels.     

Effects of psychological contract breach on attitudes and performance: The moderating role of competitive climate

The performance of hotel employees is an important driver of customer satisfaction, which in turn affects hotels’ financial outcomes. Hotel managers should encourage their staff to deliver quality service and should inspire them to perform their best. This study advances a multilevel model that draws connections among competitive climate, organizational identification (OID), job performance, affective commitment (AC), and psychological contract (PC) breach from a sample of hotel staff. The results indicate that (1) PC breach is negatively related to OID and AC, (2) OID and AC have a significant positive relationship with job performance, and (3) competitive climate at the organizational level moderates the effects of OID and AC on hotel workers’ in-role performance. These results offer valuable implications for managers to produce more efficient hotel human resource management techniques.     

Disentangling organizational commitment in hospitality industry: The roles of empowerment,enrichment, satisfaction and gender

This Paper identifies how the motivational strategies of empowerment and enrichment affect on the organizational commitment of hotel staff, and how the job satisfaction mediates in these relationships. We applied a Structural Equations Modeling to a sample of 257 front line hotel employees from Madrid, of which 144 were men and 113 were women. Our results provide evidence about several contributions: first, employees empowerment significantly grows job enrichment and organizational commitment; second, job enrichment increase workers’ satisfaction and commitment; third, job satisfaction enhances organizational commitment; fourth, job enrichment plays a mediating role between empowerment and both satisfaction and organizational commitment; fifth, satisfaction mediates between enrichment and commitment; finally, gender moderates the relationship between enrichment and commitment.     

Coaching and employee organizational citizenship behaviours: The role of procedural justice climate

This study investigates how the level of procedural justice climate (PJC) in a group may reduce or increase the impact of coaching behaviour of department managers on the organizational citizenship behaviours (OCBs) of their subordinates in the hospitality sector. The sample consists of 40 department managers and 176 employees of 12 five star hotels operating in Northern Cyprus. A multilevel analysis using hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) was utilized due to the nested nature of employees in their corresponding departments. Effective coaching is especially more important in departments where procedural justice climate is low. When the PJC is low, the role of effective coaching becomes imperative for OCBs of employees. In line with the substitutes for leadership theory, the higher levels of PJC serve as a substitute for coaching.     

酒店组织公平性氛围和服务氛围与旅客的投诉次数

文章对57家酒店的167个服务团队进行了一次实证研究,探讨酒店的组织公平性氛围和服务氛围与旅客的投诉次数之间的关系。数据分析结果表明,酒店的组织公平性氛围与服务氛围存在显著的正相关关系,酒店的服务氛围与团队的服务质量存在显著的正相关关系,团队的服务质量与旅客的投诉次数存在显著的负相关关系,酒店的服务氛围中介了组织公平性氛围与团队服务质量之间的正相关关系;团队的服务质量是酒店的服务氛围与旅客投诉次数之间的中介变量。     

A longitudinal analysis of an accelerating effect of empowerment on job satisfaction: Customer-contact vs. non-customer-contact workers

The primary purpose of this paper is to examine whether the impact of empowerment on job satisfaction increases as time changes, and whether this impact is stronger for customer-contact employees than non-customer-contact employees. This study employs a Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) technique to test research hypotheses using a longitudinal dataset from an annual employee opinion survey conducted by a hospitality company in the United States for three consecutive years; 67 work teams consisting of 1534 employees are the unit of analysis. This study finds that the effect of empowerment on job satisfaction is more salient for customer-contact employees, and the effect of empowerment accelerates over the years regardless of the nature of work. Implications of the findings are discussed for researchers and industry practitioners alike.     

Intrinsic or extrinsic motivations for hospitality employees’ creativity: The moderating role of organization-level regulatory focus

This study predicts that the intrinsic (creative personality) and extrinsic motivators (transformational leadership) reinforce employee creativity and job performance in the hospitality industry. More importantly, the positive moderating effects of organizational regulatory focus (promotion and prevention) on employee creativity are included in proposed model. To test the mode, data (339 employees and 72 supervisors) was collected from 62 Taiwan international hotels in the summer of 2014. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) were conducted to examine measurement model and hypotheses. The HLM results confirmed the effects of individual-level factors. However, an organizational promotion focus only enhances the extrinsic creative motivator. The intrinsic creative motivator was reinforced by an organizational prevention focus. The research findings suggest that hospitality managers should consider both individual- and organizational-level factors simultaneously. Indeed, the organizational goals could be set depending on the features of the department. Further discussions and implications are elucidated.