Thus far, much research on ethical aspects of different areas (business, marketing, medicine, managing and etc.) is made and various models are introduced in accordance with these researches. Each of these introduced models studies matters carrying ethical importance related to various areas. These researches in the aspect of establishments focus on whether the establishment applications are generally suitable to ethical standards or testing ethical appropriateness of manager behaviours. However, this research aims to introduce at which level the job satisfaction of employees, which are effected by factors such as physical conditions, payment types, social and safety opportunities and management types, are affected by the applications of managers in the extent of job ethics. In this context in the analysis related to data obtained from questionnaire studies on 813 employees working in city and resort hotel establishments, it is concluded that both job satisfaction and appropriateness of manager behaviours to ethical principles of employees working in city hotel establishments are more positive than resort hotel establishments. Besides, it is introduced by correlation and regression analysis that compliance of manager behaviours with ethical principles affects the job satisfaction level of employees drastically.
In our world, the natural resources are limited and the issue of "sustainability" has becoming more important each day. The tourism sector has a serious share in this issue with hotels operating and stand as one of the responsible of food waste. Therefore, the main problem is the absence of a holistic approach that underlies the problem in terms of institutional, employee or customer based food waste of the international chain hotels. The aim of this research is to analyze the existing food waste management policies of five star chain hotels, their related plans and projects for the future as well as to compare the current applications with global practices identifying the shortcomings of those implemented in Turkey while providing tangible suggestions for effective food waste management. The study population consists of 9 international chain hotels located in Ankara that undergo semi-structured interviews. The quantitative research methods, interpretations of the participant comments are the base while analyzing the findings. The research reaches striking results showing the high volume of food waste mostly due to inefficient customer awareness of those hotels against all institutional precautions on food waste.
Today, with the development of communication technologies, the rate of use of the internet and web tools has also increased. The most preferred of this web-based tools has been social media. Because of using a lot, social media has become amarketing tool both in other fields and tourism industry. Consumers are affected the contents which is created by social media users or the company in case of purchase. Thus, a tourism product in social media how it is spoken is becoming important fur businesses. At this point, it must examined changes in consumer behavior in social media in the process of tourism product purchasing. This study aims to explore relationship with consumer behavior of social media in the process of tourism product purchasing. The research was applied 455 people use social media. For the analysis was applied SPSS 21.0. As a result of the data, it's appeared to be positive relationship between consumer behavior in prior and subsequent the purchase of tourism product and the level of social media usage.
The organizations achieve the success only with their members' devoted works, no matter that the organization operates in any kind of sectors. In this context, the human element comes at the beginning of the resources that organizations have to use this element efficient and effective. Indeed, the failures that employees reflect consciously and/or unconsciously to their work affect the organization directly. In this context, social loafing which is the considered/can be considered one of the important organizational issues, and the negative effects of its on the employees and organization should not be ignored. Hence, the aim of this study is to determine the hotel employees' perceptions on social loafing behavior by their colleagues and to reveal the impact of this behavior on intention to leave. In this study, social loafing behavior has attempted to clarify by the scope of examining the self-efficacy theory and the X-Y theories. For the aim of this study, the data were collected by the questionnaire technique which applied on the 422 employees work in 9 five-star hotels in Antalya. The obtained data were decoded and interpreted by the descriptive analysis, factor analysis, correlation and regression analysis. According to the findings obtained from the aforementioned analysis, the social loafing behavior of colleagues perceived by the hotel employees and their intention to leave were realized at a level that can be considered low. On the other hand, a positive correlation/impact determined between the hotel employees' perceptions on social loafing behavior of their colleagues and the intention to leave.
This study investigates the relationship between electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) and revisit intention of the medical tourists by focusing on the mediating role of brand trust. The Commitment Trust Theory was taken as the theoretical background of this study which posits relationship commitment and trust as key elements within a successful relationship. Having utilized data from 388 domestic medical tourists via a survey in Antalya, Turkey, it was concluded that eWOM has positive and significant influences on revisit intention. In addition, Structural Equation Modelling has shown that brand trust mediates the indirect effect of eWOM on revisit intention. This study concludes with discussion of empirical findings followed by practical implications, limitations and future directions.
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