Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-7-2019

Publication Title

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

79

First page number:

100

Last page number:

109

Abstract

We examine the nature, antecedents, and service performance consequence of employees’ prosocial rule-breaking behaviors with a motive to help coworkers (PSBC) in two studies. Using a qualitative exploratory study with a sample of 80 hospitality workers, we showed the prevalence of PSBC in the hospitality industry, which includes four unique forms. Next, we examined the causes and effect of PSBC by drawing on the social cognitive theory. We proposed that coworkers PSBC and employees’ moral courage interactively predict employee PSBC, which has a negative effect on service performance. We tested the hypotheses using a time-lagged survey study with a sample of 149 hospitality workers. Results from path analysis supported our predictions. They also showed that the relationship between coworker PSBC and employee PSBC was stronger when employees’ moral courage was high. The findings provide theoretical and practical implication on managing employees’ rule-breaking behaviors in hospitality settings.

Keywords

Prosocial rule-breaking; Helping coworkers; Social Cognitive Theory; Moral courage; Service performance

Disciplines

Hospitality Administration and Management | Performance Management

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File Size

764 Kb

Language

English

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

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