Culinary science and hospitality research (한국조리학회지)

Culinary Society of Korean Academy (한국조리학회)
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National Culture and Leadership Style on Restaurant Employees' Affective Commitment

  • Kim, Yong Joong (Dept. of Hotel & Tourism Management, Kyungsung University)
  • Received : 2014.08.20
  • Accepted : 2014.10.20
  • Published : 2014.10.31
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Abstract

The topics of leadership and culture have attracted substantial interest from both academics and practitioners. This study examines the effects of leadership styles and national culture on affective commitment in samples of the restaurant employees in US. In detail, this study examines how employees evaluate their leaders with different national cultures and the ways in which cultural similarity influences employees' affective commitment. The findings suggest that participative leadership style and supportive leadership style have effects on affective commitment but instrumental leadership style does not. In addition, the findings show that employees evaluate differently leaderships of their leaders with different national culture. Finally, in order to increase the employees' affective commitment, it is recommended for managers to employ supportive leadership style toward employees of different national cultures. Participative leadership style is more effective when a manager is familiar with his or her employees' national culture.

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