Investigation of the Effect of Hotel Employees' Workaholism and Innovative Work

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of workaholic and innovative work behavior levels of hotel staff on job satisfaction. In addition, it has been tried to reveal whether there are differences between the socio-demographic characteristics of hotel employees and their workaholism, innovative work behavior and job satisfaction levels. For this purpose, a survey has been conducted for four- and five-star hotel employees operating in Konya. According to the results of the research, the general workaholism of the participants is 3.4900 ± 0.76751 (min: 1- max: 5), their level of innovative work behavior is 3.9652 ± 0.69410 (min: 1-max: 5), job satisfaction scale is 3.4544 ± 0.95408 (min: 1-max: 5). A similar and medium-level relationship has been found between hotel employees' workaholism and their innovative work behavior, between workaholism and their job satisfaction, and between their innovative business mentality and their job satisfaction. In addition, it is seen that the workaholism levels and innovative work behavior of hotel employees have a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction. 21.40% of the job satisfaction of the workaholism; it is seen that innovative work behavior explains 23.7% of job satisfaction.