leadership and motivation in hospitality

Figure 7-26 Distribution of the Work Values summated scale variable

To create a meaningful categorisation:

 the new summated variable was recoded to designate value 3 to 9 as missing;
 the remaining six values were recoded as follows:
o values 10, 11 and 12 were combined to create a category labelled
‘moderate work values’; and
o values 13, 14 and 15 were combined to create a category labelled
‘high work values’
This recoding created two approximately equal and meaningful categories,
moderate and high work values, as described in Table 7 - 41. Values 3 to 9 that
were designated as missing represented only 16 of the 209 valid values in the
original summated scale and four of the 20 missing values were missing from the
survey forms.

Variable Work values
Contact
(Missing values n = 20 )

Moderate High

105 88

scale variable Table 7-41 Distribution of the Work Values reduced and recoded summated

summated scale variable

Following a by now familiar theme, the tests for moderator effects using the Work
Values summated scale categories produced good fitting multi-group
measurement and structural models when applied to Model 2 and models with
unsatisfactory fit when applied to Model 5b.