National culture, work-life balance and employee well-being in European tourism firms: the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values
The competitive advantage of companies rests upon work attitudes and the behavior of their employees. Work-life balance initiatives are considered to be an important antecedent of employees’ wellbeing, and thus a factor that highly conditions employees’ work attitudes and behavior. This study exp...
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| author | Ana M. Lucia-Casademunt Antonia M. García-Cabrera Deybbi G. Cuéllar-Molina |
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| description | The competitive advantage of companies rests upon work attitudes
and the behavior of their employees. Work-life balance initiatives
are considered to be an important antecedent of employees’ wellbeing, and thus a factor that highly conditions employees’ work
attitudes and behavior. This study explores these relationships in
the tourism industry, where hotels and restaurants offer day and
night services that could harm work-life balance. Also, in the
tourism industry, the national diversity of employees is
continuously rising as a result of the increasing movement of
people across borders. According to cross-cultural studies,
differences in cultural dimensions (e.g., uncertainty avoidance)
cause an impact on work-related variables. Thus, people’s need for
work-life balance may depend on their national cultures, which is
why the moderating effect of national culture is under study. The
empirical analysis carried out on a sample of 745 employees in
tourism firms located in 17 European countries confirms the
moderating role of national culture on the effect that human
resource practices regarding work-life balance have on employees’
well-being at work. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-37c6d1010c3f4d0db4e264887a13e1c72025-02-02T19:39:00ZengUniversity of Algarve, ESGHT/CINTURSTourism & Management Studies2182-84662015-01-011116269National culture, work-life balance and employee well-being in European tourism firms: the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance valuesAna M. Lucia-Casademunt0Antonia M. García-Cabrera1Deybbi G. Cuéllar-Molina2University Loyola Andalucía, Department of Business Administration, C/ Escritor Castilla Aguayo, 4, 14004 Córdoba, SpainUniversity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Faculty of Economics, Management and Tourism, Department of Business Administration, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, SpainUniversity of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, School of Tourism of Lanzarote, Department of Business Administration, 35507 Tahíche-Lanzarote, SpainThe competitive advantage of companies rests upon work attitudes and the behavior of their employees. Work-life balance initiatives are considered to be an important antecedent of employees’ wellbeing, and thus a factor that highly conditions employees’ work attitudes and behavior. This study explores these relationships in the tourism industry, where hotels and restaurants offer day and night services that could harm work-life balance. Also, in the tourism industry, the national diversity of employees is continuously rising as a result of the increasing movement of people across borders. According to cross-cultural studies, differences in cultural dimensions (e.g., uncertainty avoidance) cause an impact on work-related variables. Thus, people’s need for work-life balance may depend on their national cultures, which is why the moderating effect of national culture is under study. The empirical analysis carried out on a sample of 745 employees in tourism firms located in 17 European countries confirms the moderating role of national culture on the effect that human resource practices regarding work-life balance have on employees’ well-being at work.https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/758/1265work-life balanceemployee well-beingnational culturehuman resource practicestourism industry |
| spellingShingle | Ana M. Lucia-Casademunt Antonia M. García-Cabrera Deybbi G. Cuéllar-Molina National culture, work-life balance and employee well-being in European tourism firms: the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values Tourism & Management Studies work-life balance employee well-being national culture human resource practices tourism industry |
| title | National culture, work-life balance and employee well-being in European tourism firms: the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values |
| title_full | National culture, work-life balance and employee well-being in European tourism firms: the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values |
| title_fullStr | National culture, work-life balance and employee well-being in European tourism firms: the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values |
| title_full_unstemmed | National culture, work-life balance and employee well-being in European tourism firms: the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values |
| title_short | National culture, work-life balance and employee well-being in European tourism firms: the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values |
| title_sort | national culture work life balance and employee well being in european tourism firms the moderating effect of uncertainty avoidance values |
| topic | work-life balance employee well-being national culture human resource practices tourism industry |
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