Who cares about single childless employees in the hotel industry? Creating a workplace culture beyond family-friendly

Shi, Xiaolin; Shi, Jieyu

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2021.104477

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“…However, this does not seem to be the case here. Although the experiences of childless workers are arguably under-researched, extant studies find that childless workers may have less positive work experiences than their colleagues with children: childless workers often receive less time off, are expected to work harder and perceive that they are underappreciated and treated worse than their peers who are parents (Goldschmitt, 2022; Lutz, 2017; Shi and Shi, 2022; Wakabayashi and Frenkel, 2020). Thus, there may be a relationship between general feelings around the overall workplace experience and perceptions of choice for childless workers.…”

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Who gets to choose: a global perspective on gender, work and choice in the post-pandemic workplace

Dalessandro,

Patterson,

Lovell

2023

EDI

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PurposeCompared to the years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more workers today seemingly have choice over where, when and how they do their work. However, gender inequalities at work and at home persist, which may impact perceptions of choice. Thus, researchers must investigate the potential impact of gender and domestic responsibilities on perceptions of work-related options, including perceptions of workspace choice. Design/methodology/approachUsing an original dataset with workers in North America, South America, Europe and Asia (N = 3,147), the authors conducted logistic regression analyses to explore whether workers felt they had a choice in where they do their work (workspace choice). In addition to gender, the authors considered the effect of domestic responsibilities (childcare and housework) on worker perceptions of workspace choice.FindingsIn the paper's initial regression, the authors found that men (OR: 1.24; 95%CI 1.04–1.48) as well as workers reporting that a partner was responsible for all or most of the housework (OR: 1.80; 95%CI 1.34–2.40) and childcare (OR 1.51; 95%CI 1.09–2.09) reported feeling a greater sense of workspace choice. Simultaneously, follow-up regression analyses found that women and men whose partners had a greater share of domestic responsibility had amplified perceptions of choice. However, surprisingly, men who claimed primary responsibility for domestic work also reported more choice over workspace.Originality/valueUsing an international sample, the authors explore gender inequities in worker perceptions of workspace choice. The authors' findings suggest that domestic responsibilities interact with gender in interesting ways, leading to differences in perceptions of choice in the post-pandemic workplace.

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Who gets to choose: a global perspective on gender, work and choice in the post-pandemic workplace

Dalessandro,

Patterson,

Lovell

2023

EDI

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“…Early researchers who utilized the concept of "role" to elucidate social phenomena held different interpretations of this concept, gradually diverging into multiple schools of thought: functionalism, structuralism, symbolic interactionism, organizational perspectives, and cognitive role theory [52]. Previous research in tourism has predominantly focused on role conflicts that arise within occupational contexts, such as those experienced by employees in travel agencies [53][54][55][56][57], hotels [58,59], and tour guides [60,61]. Consequently, many of these studies adopted the framework of organizational perspectives to elucidate role conflicts within tourism activities and lacked exploration regarding potential role conflicts among tourists themselves.…”

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A Tale of Two Identities: The Value, Attitude, and Behavior of Adult Children towards Family Tourism Experiences

Hu,

Li,

Pang

2023

Sustainability

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Adult children accompanying their parents on trips is a particular form of family tourism. During family travel, adult children assume two roles: as tourists, they pursue personal hedonic experiences, while as children, they also bear the responsibility of showing filial piety towards their parents. These two roles entail inherent contradictions. How this conflict influences the formation of family tourism values between adult children and their parents, and ultimately impacts adult children’s intention to accompany their parents on future trips (re-travel intention), requires further in-depth analysis. Based on the perspective of tourist-to-tourist interaction and role conflict theory, this study applied a “value–attitude–behavior” model to empirically analyze the relationship between the interactions of adult children and parents during the tourism and their re-travel intention. An empirical investigation was conducted with 566 adult children from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Shanghai. The result of the structural equation modeling (SEM) analysis indicates that both positive interactions and role conflict have significant impacts on the formation of family tourism values, and these impacts are moderated by self-efficacy. Furthermore, these two variables influence attitude through the values of filial piety and family connection, which, in turn, affect the re-travel intentions of adult children. This study confirmed that the higher the self-efficacy of adult children, the better effect the positive interaction has and the less impact the role conflict has, which ultimately affects adult children’s re-travel intention. At the theoretical level, this study reveals the process of the formation of “adult children–parents” family tourism values, and provides practical insights for family tourism marketing.

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Who cares about single childless employees in the hotel industry? Creating a workplace culture beyond family-friendly

Cited by 2 publications

References 86 publications

Who gets to choose: a global perspective on gender, work and choice in the post-pandemic workplace

Who gets to choose: a global perspective on gender, work and choice in the post-pandemic workplace

A Tale of Two Identities: The Value, Attitude, and Behavior of Adult Children towards Family Tourism Experiences

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