Abstract

Occupational stress and turnover intention are a growing and costly concern for the hospitality industry. Drawing on Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) theory, the study developed a research model to simultaneously examine the effects of psychological capital, social capital, and human capital on occupational stress and turnover intention. A sample size of 380 hotel employees in China was used to test the proposed model using the PLS-SEM methodology. The results suggest that occupational stress plays a full mediator role between psychological capital and turnover intention, and plays a partial mediator role between relational social capital and turnover intention. Psychological capital and relational social capital were found to have relatively higher effects on occupational stress compared to other types of capital. The study extends JD-R theory by recognizing that occupational stress functions as a mediator between the three types of capital and turnover intention. The study concludes by offering a set of practical implications stemming from this research for hotel practitioners.

RAS ID

36652

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

9-30-2021

Volume

98

Funding Information

Sichuan Cuisine Development Research Center of Sichuan Philosophy and Social Science, China

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

School

School of Business and Law

Creative Commons License

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.

Publisher

Elsevier

Identifier

Songshan (Sam) Huang

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4990-2788

Comments

This is an author's accepted manuscript of: Li, Z., Yu, Z., Huang, S. S., Zhou, J., Yu, M., & Gu, R. (2021). The effects of psychological capital, social capital, and human capital on hotel employees’ occupational stress and turnover intention. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 98, Article 103046.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2021.103046

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10.1016/j.ijhm.2021.103046