The Impact Of Social Loafing On Intention To Leave: A Study On Hotels Cover Image

Sosyal Kaytarmanın İşten Ayrılma Niyeti Üzerindeki Etkisi: Otel İşletmelerinde Bir Araştırma
The Impact Of Social Loafing On Intention To Leave: A Study On Hotels

Author(s): Evren Güçer, Elbeyi Pelit, Şerif Ahmet Demirdağ, Yasin Keleş
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management, Organizational Psychology, Tourism, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi
Keywords: Social loafing; intention to leave; hotel employees;

Summary/Abstract: The organizations achieve the success only with their members' devoted works, no matter that the organization operates in any kind of sectors. In this context, the human element comes at the beginning of the resources that organizations have to use this element efficient and effective. Indeed, the failures that employees reflect consciously and/or unconsciously to their work affect the organization directly. In this context, social loafing which is the considered/can be considered one of the important organizational issues, and the negative effects of its on the employees and organization should not be ignored. Hence, the aim of this study is to determine the hotel employees' perceptions on social loafing behavior by their colleagues and to reveal the impact of this behavior on intention to leave. In this study, social loafing behavior has attempted to clarify by the scope of examining the self-efficacy theory and the X-Y theories. For the aim of this study, the data were collected by the questionnaire technique which applied on the 422 employees work in 9 five-star hotels in Antalya. The obtained data were decoded and interpreted by the descriptive analysis, factor analysis, correlation and regression analysis. According to the findings obtained from the aforementioned analysis, the social loafing behavior of colleagues perceived by the hotel employees and their intention to leave were realized at a level that can be considered low. On the other hand, a positive correlation/impact determined between the hotel employees' perceptions on social loafing behavior of their colleagues and the intention to leave.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 14-36
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Turkish