Service employees’ workplace fun and turnover intention: the influence of psychological capital and work engagement
ISSN: 2040-8269
Article publication date: 9 August 2021
Issue publication date: 8 February 2022
Abstract
Purpose
As a way of addressing how best turnover intention among service employees can be reduced through workplace fun, this study aims to examine how psychological capital (PsyCap) and work engagement, respectively, moderates and mediates the relationship between workplace fun and turnover intention in a moderated mediation.
Design/methodology/approach
Using cross-sectional quantitative design, data were collected by means of questionnaires and convenience sampling. The hypotheses were tested with 482 service employees from the hospitality industry in Ghana using PROCESS macro.
Findings
The findings depict that work engagement mediates the relationship between workplace fun and turnover intention among service employees. Also, PsyCap moderates the workplace fun–engagement relationship, in addition to the workplace fun–work engagement–turnover intention relationship. Specifically, both relationships are stronger for employees with high PsyCap.
Practical implications
The authors would like to conclude that as frontline employees are usually subjected to stressful conditions, monotonous working environments and emotional labor, which affect the quitting intention, incorporating fun into the workplace will strategically help frontline employees to be engaged in their work and reduce their intentions to quit.
Originality/value
With a focus on a developing economy, this work is novel in exploring possible factors that may help increase work engagement and reduce turnover intention among service employees.
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Citation
Tetteh, S., Dei Mensah, R., Opata, C.N. and Mensah, C.N. (2022), "Service employees’ workplace fun and turnover intention: the influence of psychological capital and work engagement", Management Research Review, Vol. 45 No. 3, pp. 363-380. https://doi.org/10.1108/MRR-12-2020-0768
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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