leadership and motivation in hospitality

The new, combined employee attitudes construct has five indicator variables JS1,
AOC2, ME1, ME3 and ME6 and has been labelled as Employee Positive Attitudes
(EPA). Details of the item statements for each of the indicator variables can be
found above in Figure 7 - 12.

The respecification and new EPA construct required the generation of two new
hypotheses, labelled H 21 (representing the ML→EPA path) and H 22 (representing
the EPA→JP path).

Figure 7-16 Model 3b structure, estimates and fit statistics

The EPA construct was found to have a partial moderation effect between the
Motivational Leadership and Motivation constructs. The magnitude of the total
effect between the constructs in Model 3b are described in Table 7 - 21.

Independent
variables

Dependent variables

EPA JP DSB
ML 0.574 0.415 0.401
EPA - 0.267 -

Table 7-21 Total (standardised) effects for Model 3b

The effect sizes for the portions of the structural model that include the new EPA
construct are very similar to those for Model 2 where the Work Meaning (ME)
construct takes the place of EPA. This reflects the similarity in the factor
structure for ME (consisting of indicators ME1, ME3 and ME6) and the factor
structure for EPA, which contains the same three ME indicators plus JS1 and
AOC2.