The Moderating Role of Passion for Service in The Hospitality Industry: Burnout Model

Authors

  • Chakrit Srisakun Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics, Assumption University
  • Wanny Oentoro Martin de Tours School of Management and Economics, Assumption University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55766/AASD6482

Keywords:

Passion, Burnout, Intention to leave, Frontline employee

Abstract

The objective of this research was to study the moderating effect of passion for service toward the relationship between burnout and intention to leave among the frontline employees who work in a hotel chains in Bangkok, the targeted population includes 63 hotel-chains in Bangkok, and 554 frontline employees contained suitable data and the moderated multiple regression analysis. The result indicates that passion for service performed the role to reduce the impact of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization on the intention to leave significantly. Based on these finding, the suggestion can be made that the recruiting and retaining the passionate frontline employees who have a passion to work, especially passion to provide service to customers need to be considered as the important factor to reduce the intention to leave which can eventually lead to reduce turnover rate.

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2022-03-10

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