Exploring the effect of perceived fun at work on hospitality employees’ behaviors in and out of work

Abdelmotaleb, Moustafa

doi:10.1108/ijchm-02-2023-0139

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Fostering a knowledge sharing culture: the role of fun, empowerment, and inclusive leadership

Islam,

Ahmed,

Alkharabsheh

2024

GKMC

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Purpose Knowledge is an important resource that becomes obsolete if not shared in time. Therefore, this study aims to examine how employees’ perceived fun at work affects their psychological empowerment to evoke knowledge-sharing behavior. The study further explored the conditional role of inclusive leadership between the same. Design/methodology/approach Using the time lag approach, the data for the current study was collected from 355 employees working in IT firms. The study used convenience sampling, and structural equation modeling was used for hypotheses testing. Findings The results showed that perceptions of fun have a favorable impact on employees' knowledge sharing behavior and psychological empowerment mediate this relationship. Furthermore, there was no empirical evidence of the conditional role of inclusive leadership between fun and psychological empowerment. However, the results of the alternative model indicated that inclusive leadership moderates the relationship between psychological empowerment and knowledge sharing. Research limitations/implications The findings reveal that management should nurture fun at work as it can lead to psychological empowerment and knowledge sharing. The study also reveals that the role of leadership is important for empowerment and knowledge sharing relationships. Originality/value Based on the conservation of resources and self-determination perspectives, this study proposes and empirically investigates the mechanism of psychological empowerment and inclusive leadership which has largely been an unattended area of research in knowledge sharing literature.

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Fostering a knowledge sharing culture: the role of fun, empowerment, and inclusive leadership

Islam,

Ahmed,

Alkharabsheh

2024

GKMC

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Well! Fun forms and friendship uplift frontline employees' positive affect for workplace well-being in the hospitality industry

Suneera,

Mavoothu,

Sajid

2024

JHTI

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PurposeThis study aims to reveal the positive effects of workplace fun forms on employee positive affect state and workplace well-being. This study also aims to examine workplace friendship opportunity and workplace friendship prevalence in the context of fun events and workplace well-being.Design/methodology/approachThe research model developed and tested with responses from 1,000 thousand Indian frontline employees of five-star hotels who have worked in the hospitality industry for at least two years and who have been exposed to fun committees at their workplace.FindingsThis study revealed that workplace fun forms are the main causes of employee positive affective reactions, and they have positive effects on frontline employees' positive affect. The study also found that fun activities, customer interaction with fun and manager support for fun as workplace events are strong proximal causes for forming positive affect when they have workplace friendship opportunity. Coworker socialization can induce employee positive affect in the workplace, even without the moderating effect of workplace friendship opportunity. Additionally, the positive effect of positive affect was found to be significant on workplace well-being.Practical implicationsHospitality management is required to foster fun culture with fun activities, coworker socialization, manager support for fun and customer interaction with fun that enhance employee affective reactions to uplift employee positive affect state. This study also presents more interesting practical implications for practitioners and managers.Originality/valueThis study empirically tested deferential workplace fun forms on positive affect, and study provides novel insights into positive affect and workplace well-being. Four mediation mechanisms examined on fun forms and workplace well-being. Four moderating roles of workplace friendship opportunity tested on positive affect and fun events. Workplace friendship prevalence moderation on positive affect and workplace well-being helped to understand employee cognitive mechanism.

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Methods to Attract and Retain Talented Employees in Romanian Organizations

Florea,

Croitoru,

Robescu

et al. 2024

Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development

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Companies to achieve their objectives need talented employees with unique skills and competencies to obtain competitive advantage. The chapter's goal is to analyze the influence of attracting and retaining talents on organizational performance in Romanian companies. There were also investigated the characteristics of the three generations of talents, perceived through these human resources (HR) processes. Using PLS-SEM 4.0, it was determined that all the attraction and retention proposed variables had a positive and direct influence on organizational performance. The most important influential attraction factors are brand and nondiscrimination (4.63), salary and work conditions (4.60), and as retaining factors the offered training programs and good communication (4.73) and working atmosphere (4.70). The three generations were analysed according to attraction and retention variables, and because their scores were different, HR department could build a future guide based on their specificities in order to attract the best talents and to keep them to achieve long run performance.

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Exploring the effect of perceived fun at work on hospitality employees’ behaviors in and out of work

Cited by 3 publications

References 56 publications

Fostering a knowledge sharing culture: the role of fun, empowerment, and inclusive leadership

Fostering a knowledge sharing culture: the role of fun, empowerment, and inclusive leadership

Well! Fun forms and friendship uplift frontline employees' positive affect for workplace well-being in the hospitality industry

Methods to Attract and Retain Talented Employees in Romanian Organizations

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