İşe Adanmanın Yenilikçi İş Davranışına Etkisinde Kontrol Odağının Düzenleyici Rolü: Yiyecek-İçecek Departmanı. Çalışanlarına Yönelik Bir Uygulama
The Moderating Role of Locus of Control on the Effect of Work Engagement to Innovative Work Behavior: An Application for Food and Beverage Department Employees

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to test the moderating effect of locus of control on the effect of workengagement to innovative work behavior of the employees in the field of food and beveragedepartment. In this context, a field study was conducted on the employees of the food andbeverage department of the hotel businesses operating in Antalya in order to analyze the researchmodel and the data were obtained by using the survey technique. Using the conveniencesampling method, 432 questionnaires were collected from food and beverage employees.Appropriate statistical package programs were used in the analysis of the collected data. As aresult of the research, it has been determined that work engagement affects positively innovativework behavior. Within the scope of the moderating effect, while the internal locus of control hasno effect, it has been found that the external locus of control has a moderating role in therelationship between work engagement and innovative business behavior. Finally, it was seenthat the effect of work engagement on innovative work behavior was significant at low, medium,and high external locus of control levels.

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