Khattak Shoukat Iqbal, Haider Aftab, Ahmed Syed Khalil, Rizvi Syed Tahir Hussain, Shaokang Lin
School of Business Administration, Jimei University, Xiamen, China.
Business Studies Department, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Front Psychol. 2022 May 20;13:865899. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.865899. eCollection 2022.
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.
本文提出了一个研究模型，用以解释工作嵌入性（JE）和工作投入度（WENG）在道德领导（EL）与职业满意度（CS）之间的顺序中介效应。该模型还检验了JE是否会提高WENG，WENG是一个受道德实践间接影响并最终影响员工满意度的因素。该研究采用了时间滞后的数据收集程序，并对中国247名酒店员工的调查回复进行了分析。数据通过结构方程模型进行分析。结果表明，EL直接和间接地（通过JE和WENG的顺序中介效应）对员工的CS有贡献。本实证框架通过解释EL在中国酒店员工中产生CS的精确机制（即JE和WENG），扩展了酒店业的文献。本文还提出了理论和实践意义以及未来的研究方向。
