The current knowledge base lacks evidence about situational-and surface-level personality variables and their impacts on job embeddedness and proclivity to be absent from work.With this recognition,drawing from the hi...The current knowledge base lacks evidence about situational-and surface-level personality variables and their impacts on job embeddedness and proclivity to be absent from work.With this recognition,drawing from the hierarchical personality model and fit theory as well as job embeddedness theory,our paper explores the influences of job resourcefulness(JR)and customer orientation(CO)on job embeddedness and propensity to be absent from work.We tapped time-lagged data gathered from hotel customer-contact employees in the United Arab Emirates to assess the aforementioned linkages via structural equation modeling.CO is a complete mediator between JR and job embeddedness,while job embeddedness completely mediates the linkage between CO and absence intentions.Specifically,hotel employees who can work under a resource-depleted environment are high on CO and therefore display job embeddedness at elevated levels.In addition,customer-oriented hotel employees have higher job embeddedness and therefore exhibit lower absence intentions.展开更多
This study analyzes opportunity recognition and development from the perspective of job embeddedness based on entrepreneurial action of tech-entrepreneur. The impact of job embeddedness to entrepreneurial path choice ...This study analyzes opportunity recognition and development from the perspective of job embeddedness based on entrepreneurial action of tech-entrepreneur. The impact of job embeddedness to entrepreneurial path choice of tech-entrepreneur is tested by multi-case study. This paper also provides theoretic evidence to enhance the possibility of success of start-ups for entrepreneurs.展开更多
文摘The current knowledge base lacks evidence about situational-and surface-level personality variables and their impacts on job embeddedness and proclivity to be absent from work.With this recognition,drawing from the hierarchical personality model and fit theory as well as job embeddedness theory,our paper explores the influences of job resourcefulness(JR)and customer orientation(CO)on job embeddedness and propensity to be absent from work.We tapped time-lagged data gathered from hotel customer-contact employees in the United Arab Emirates to assess the aforementioned linkages via structural equation modeling.CO is a complete mediator between JR and job embeddedness,while job embeddedness completely mediates the linkage between CO and absence intentions.Specifically,hotel employees who can work under a resource-depleted environment are high on CO and therefore display job embeddedness at elevated levels.In addition,customer-oriented hotel employees have higher job embeddedness and therefore exhibit lower absence intentions.
基金supported by SHANNXI Social Science Foundation(10Q067)Ministry of Education Social Science and Humanities Foundation(12YJA630187)High Education Research Fund of Northwestern Polytechnical University(2014)
文摘This study analyzes opportunity recognition and development from the perspective of job embeddedness based on entrepreneurial action of tech-entrepreneur. The impact of job embeddedness to entrepreneurial path choice of tech-entrepreneur is tested by multi-case study. This paper also provides theoretic evidence to enhance the possibility of success of start-ups for entrepreneurs.