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Seasonal employee leadership in the hospitality industry: a scale development      
Yazarlar
Hüseyin Araslı
Levent Altınay
Türkiye
Doç. Dr. Hasan Evrim ARICI Doç. Dr. Hasan Evrim ARICI
Türkiye
Özet
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the model of seasonal employee leadership (SEL) in a service management process and to create a multi-dimensional scale to gauge this construct. This is because very recent qualitative research by Arasli and Arici (2019), which is the first stage of this scale, recommended a multi-dimensional SEL model for the hospitality industry. Design/methodology/approach: Making use of data gathered from 1,343 seasonal hotel employees, the authors established a new scale to examine the SEL model. Two separate data sets were collected; the first set was used to perform an exploratory factor analysis, while the second set was processed to confirm the initial factor results using a confirmatory factor analysis. Findings: The results show that the measurement scale developed in this research provides considerable reliability, as well as convergent and discriminant validities. In particular, the findings confirmed a four-dimensional measurement scale of the SEL: seasonal leader’s qualities, core influence, operational influence and terminal influence. Originality/value: The paper is the first attempt to develop a new scale which measures the SEL approach in the hospitality literature. Therefore, this study contributes to the current literature through developing and testing the four-dimensional SEL scale and shedding light on the importance of an industry-specific leadership in managing seasonal hotel employees effectively.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Industry-specific leadership | Needs and satisfaction | Scale development | Seasonal employee leadership
Makale Türü Özgün Makale
Makale Alt Türü SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayımlanan tam makale
Dergi Adı INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
Dergi ISSN 0959-6119
Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler SSCI
Dergi Grubu Q1
Makale Dili Türkçe
Basım Tarihi 04-2020
Cilt No 32
Sayı 6
Sayfalar 2195 / 2215
Doi Numarası 10.1108/IJCHM-05-2019-0508
Makale Linki http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-05-2019-0508