How Ambition and Commitment Influence the Career Withdrawal Intention of Hotel Employees: A Latent Change Score Modeling Approach
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Zhu, Dan
Doan, Tin
Thawornlamlert, Pattamol Kanjanakan
Park, In-Jo
Kim, Peter B
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Despite the significant challenges of high turnover and labor shortages in the hospitality industry, the impact of ambition on employees’ vocational attitudes remains underexplored. Drawing on self-determination and prospect theories, this research investigated the ways that hotel employees’ ambition affected their career withdrawal intention, with career commitment acting as a mediator. Employing latent change score mediation modeling, with longitudinal data collected in four waves over nine months, it was found that changes in ambition levels correlate with changes in career commitment, subsequently affecting change in withdrawal intention. These findings advance the knowledge relating to the mechanisms of ambition, and shift the research focus from a static, between-person perspective, to one that considers the dynamic, within-person changes in vocational attitudes. From a practical perspective, the study contributes to understanding the dynamics of career development and retention strategies in the hospitality industry.
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3508 Tourism, 3504 Commercial Services, 3505 Human Resources and Industrial Relations, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 1504 Commercial Services, 1505 Marketing, 1506 Tourism, Sport, Leisure & Tourism, Ambition, Career withdrawal intentions, Career commitment, Mediation, Within-person variance, Latent change score modeling
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International Journal of Hospitality Management, ISSN: 0278-4319 (Print), Elsevier BV, 133, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104458
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© 2025 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.