TY - JOUR
T1 - Fueling the intrapreneurial spirit
T2 - A closer look at how spiritual leadership motivates employee intrapreneurial behaviors
AU - Usman, Muhammad
AU - Ali, Moazzam
AU - Ogbonnaya, Chidebere
AU - Babalola, Mayowa T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Chidiebere Ogbonnaya is a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management/Organizational Behaviour at University of Sussex Business School. He is also a co-lead for the Digit Centre's Data Observatory, funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council. His research on job quality, workplace values and well-being has appeared in journals such as Journal of Management, Human Resource Management (USA), Human Resource Management Journal (UK), Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, among others.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/4
Y1 - 2021/4
N2 - This study enriches the hospitality literature by testing a theoretical model on the direct and indirect (via psychological empowerment) relationships between spiritual leadership and intrapreneurial behaviors among hotels' frontline employees. The study also tests the moderating role of work centrality in these relationships. Using time-lagged data from 204 employees and 48 supervisors in 48 hotels, our results show that spiritual leadership is positively associated with frontline employees' psychological empowerment, which in turn increases intrapreneurial behaviors. We also find evidence that work centrality increases the strength of these positive relationships. Our results thus provide new insights on how spiritual leadership motivates hotels’ frontline employees to depart from customary ways of performing their jobs, towards seeking new opportunities to create value for the organization. We suggest that managers, through their vision, altruistic love and faith, can indeed inspire feelings of empowerment among frontline employees and encourage them to engage in intrapreneurial behaviors.
AB - This study enriches the hospitality literature by testing a theoretical model on the direct and indirect (via psychological empowerment) relationships between spiritual leadership and intrapreneurial behaviors among hotels' frontline employees. The study also tests the moderating role of work centrality in these relationships. Using time-lagged data from 204 employees and 48 supervisors in 48 hotels, our results show that spiritual leadership is positively associated with frontline employees' psychological empowerment, which in turn increases intrapreneurial behaviors. We also find evidence that work centrality increases the strength of these positive relationships. Our results thus provide new insights on how spiritual leadership motivates hotels’ frontline employees to depart from customary ways of performing their jobs, towards seeking new opportunities to create value for the organization. We suggest that managers, through their vision, altruistic love and faith, can indeed inspire feelings of empowerment among frontline employees and encourage them to engage in intrapreneurial behaviors.
KW - Hospitality industry
KW - Intrapreneurial behavior
KW - Psychological empowerment
KW - Spiritual leadership
KW - Work centrality
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104227
DO - 10.1016/j.tourman.2020.104227
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85091239756
SN - 0261-5177
VL - 83
JO - Tourism Management
JF - Tourism Management
M1 - 104227
ER -