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Stressors, work engagement and their effects on hotel employee outcomes

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  • Olusegun A. Olugbade
  • Osman M. Karatepe

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Our study aims to revisit the challenge-hindrance stressor framework among customer-contact employees. Specifically, our study links challenge and hindrance stressors to four critical employee outcomes via work engagement (WE). These outcomes are quitting intentions, service recovery performance, creative performance, and job performance. Data came from hotel employees in customer-contact positions in three waves and their direct supervisors in Nigeria. As hypothesised, WE fosters service recovery, creative, and job performances, while it mitigates quitting intentions. Inconsistent with our predictions, hindrance stressors boost WE and challenge stressors exert detrimental effects on WE. Although WE links challenge and hindrance stressors to the aforementioned outcomes, the signs of the mediating effects are not congruent with what is hypothesised in the study. These unexpected findings agree with Bakker and Sanz-Vergel’s [2013] proposition that categorisation of job demands as challenge or hindrance stressors may not always be straightforward.

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  • Olusegun A. Olugbade & Osman M. Karatepe, 2019. "Stressors, work engagement and their effects on hotel employee outcomes," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 39(3-4), pages 279-298, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:39:y:2019:i:3-4:p:279-298
    DOI: 10.1080/02642069.2018.1520842
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