Avoiding employee deviance in the hotel industry: Investigating the mediating effect of trust in leadership

Abstract

The current paper observes the effect of ethics in leadership on employees trust, affective commitments, and deviance behaviors. Ethical behavior, choices of supervisors and managers, and apprehension of the establishments where deviant activities are supported by workers will be vital. The impression of corrupt morals appears to be a risk to the achievement of the institution. This study made use of a method using a convenience sample. Statistics of 264 workers of sampled hotels were used to obtain the opinions of the respondents about the constructs. Confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and correlation analysis were used to assess the main consequences and examine the causality among associated variables. The outcomes displayed revealed that ethical leadership can boost workers' trust in their leaders. Thus, workers can be successfully devoted to their tasks and have no motive to indulge in nonconformity actions when they trust in the leadership of their management. The outcomes showed that trust in leaders by staff definitely influences affective commitments and were against unconventional deviance behaviors, as seen from the consequences, outcomes, practical implications, and suggestions recommended, when making decisions, by future scholars.