Antecedents and Consequences of Job Embeddedness in the Egyptian Hospitality Context

Antecedents and Consequences of Job Embeddedness in the Egyptian Hospitality Context

Sameh Abd-elMaksoud Aboul-Dahab
DOI: 10.4018/IJCRMM.2022010103
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Abstract

Although there are a growing body of studies on the influence of job embeddedness on turnover intention, few researches have been conducted on the drivers and outcomes of job embeddedness. Thus, this paper seeks to examine the drivers and outcomes of job embeddedness in the Egyptian hotels context. Data were collected from employees in the Egyptian hotels. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data. The results indicated that organisational support, employee advocacy, organisational rewards, and procedural justice are key drivers of job embeddedness. Furthermore, job embeddedness is related to organisational commitment and turnover intention. This study provides implications for the hospitality industry.
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Worker turnover and the undeniable degrees of work portability in the friendliness labour forces are significant issues. The outcomes of representative turnover incorporate immediate and circuitous costs, for example, enlisting and preparing new workers and the deficiency of authoritative information when representatives leave (Fasbender, Van der Heijden, and Grimshaw, 2019; Sender, Rutishauser, and Staffelbach, 2018). Possible answers for high turnover incorporate expanding mentalities, for example, work fulfilment and hierarchical responsibility (Yang et al., 2020; Zhang et al., 2019). Nonetheless, while expanded degrees of occupation fulfilment and authoritative responsibility foresee lower aims to leave, they are frequently helpless indicators of real turnover (Akgunduz and Sanli, 2017; De Clercq, Haq, and Azeem, 2020).

Plainly different components are grinding away as far as work turnover, as has been noted (Coetzer et al., 2019), and further exploration is required in the neighbourliness and different businesses to comprehend the nature and part of this more extensive scope of variables. For instance, towards building up a more vigorous clarification of the variables affecting expectations to leave, a few agents have started to analyse the part of off-the-work factors, for example, the effect of harmony between serious and fun times (for example Ferreira, Martinez, Lamelas, and Rodrigues, 2017; Marasi, Cox, and Bennett, 2016). In any case, in a more extreme re-situating of the exploration, others contend that holes in our present arrangement are related with too incredible a concentration upon the reasons why individuals give up positions occupations instead of why individuals stay. Specifically, Mitchell and his associates (2001) at first speculated the work embeddedness build to represent the part of at work (for example individual arrangement with the work and association) and off-the-work (for example associations with the local area through history, family and social gatherings) factors that may impact worker perspectives and practices according to turnover. Itis proposed that these factors supersede work perspectives that would commonly incite goals to leave (Allen, Peltokorpi, and Rubenstein, 2016; Porter, Woo, and Campion, 2016).

As per “Social Exchange Theory” (SCT) (Blau, 1964) and “Norm of Reciprocity Theory” (NRT) (Gouldner, 1960), workers who see that their commitment is esteemed by the association create good inclination towards their work and association. Along these lines, deciding and applying administrative practices that mean to build workers' good insights about hierarchical help can assist representatives with creating good emotions towards their association. Cropanzano, Anthony, Daniels, and Hall (2017) contends that “individuals should help the individuals who help them” and “individuals ought not mischief the individuals who help them” during the time spent human exchange.

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