detailed analysis of the approaches to and findings from the existing hospitality
leadership research literature.
The conclusion and recommendations from the current research are that:
(i) the hospitality leadership studies field remains at an early evolutionary stage;
and
(ii) for the field to progress researchers should begin to adopt augmentative
approaches (rather than the generally ad hoc approaches that appear to
characterise the field of study) that draw upon and progress the findings and
theoretical developments of existing hospitality studies.
The organising framework for the research (Objective 2) was developed from
reviews of the generic work motivation research and the overarching field of
industrial and organisational (I/O) psychology. Using this organising framework it
was possible to accommodate the range of identified latent variables (constructs)
and specify likely causal relations between them. The organising framework is
illustrated in Figure 8 - 1.
Figure 8-1 Organising framework for the research
The organising framework describes 20 hypotheses illustrated with single-headed
arrows (→) and these hypotheses are described fully in Table 4 - 2 and Table 4 - 3
(Section 4.4). During the development of the statistical models, a number of
hypotheses were dropped or superseded owing to constructs that: (a) did not