Nexus of Ethical Leadership, Career Satisfaction, Job Embeddedness, and Work Engagement in Hospitality Industry: A Sequential Mediation Assessment

Frontiers in Psychology

Aftab Haider¹  Syed Tahir Hussain Rizvi²  Syed Khalil Ahmed³  Shoukat Iqbal Khattak⁴  Lin Shaokang⁵ 

[1] Business Studies Department, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan;Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Management Sciences, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan;Department of Management Sciences, University of Loralai, Balochistan, Pakistan;School of Business Administration, Jimei University, Xiamen, China;School of Finance, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China;

关键词: ethical leadership;    job embeddedness;    work engagement;    career satisfaction;    hospitality industry;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.865899

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The paper proposes a research model explaining the sequential mediation effect of job embeddedness (JE) and work engagement (WENG) between ethical leadership (EL) and career satisfaction (CS). The model also examines whether JE heightens WENG, a factor indirectly influenced by ethical practices ending in employee satisfaction. The study used a time-lagged data collection procedure and survey responses of 247 hotel workers in China. Data were analyzed through structural equation modeling. The results showed that EL directly and indirectly (through sequential mediation effect of JE and WENG) contributes to employee CS. The present empirical framework extends the hospitality industry literature by explaining the precise mechanism (i.e., JE and WENG) through which EL generates CS among hospitality workers in China. The paper offers theoretical and practical implications and future research directions.

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