Effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performance

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of leadership styles on financial performance. Although the importance of leadership styles has been recognized in practice and academia, little research has focused on the impact of leadership on financial performance in hospitality and...

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Main Author: Xuan Tran
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of tourism and hospitality management 2017-11-01
Series:Tourism and Hospitality Management
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Online Access:https://thm.fthm.hr/images/issues/vol23no2/2_Tran.pdf
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description Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of leadership styles on financial performance. Although the importance of leadership styles has been recognized in practice and academia, little research has focused on the impact of leadership on financial performance in hospitality and tourism industry. Design – The paper first defines motives, leadership styles, leaders’ experiences, and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). It then uses quasi-experimental design to predict the impacts of leadership styles and leaders’ experiences on financial performance. Methodology – The study has conducted partial least square regression to find the effects of leadership styles and leaders’ experiences on financial performance of the hotel companies. Approach – Vision statements of the publicly traded hotel companies are transferred into motives and leadership styles using the LIWC. Findings – Transformational leadership and longer-tenured CEOs with high power and affiliation motives are associated with return on equity (ROE) whereas transactional leadership and older CEOs with high achievement motive affect return on assets (ROA). Originality of the research – The study opens a new approach to quantify the vision statements using LIWC and contributes to the relationship of leadership styles, leaders’ experiences, and financial performance.
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spelling doaj.art-5eef53b4175a4899a5745880976f38472022-12-21T19:43:57ZengFaculty of tourism and hospitality managementTourism and Hospitality Management1330-75331847-33772017-11-0123216318310.20867/thm.23.2.7Effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performanceXuan Tran 0Global Hospitality and Tourism Management, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FloridaPurpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of leadership styles on financial performance. Although the importance of leadership styles has been recognized in practice and academia, little research has focused on the impact of leadership on financial performance in hospitality and tourism industry. Design – The paper first defines motives, leadership styles, leaders’ experiences, and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). It then uses quasi-experimental design to predict the impacts of leadership styles and leaders’ experiences on financial performance. Methodology – The study has conducted partial least square regression to find the effects of leadership styles and leaders’ experiences on financial performance of the hotel companies. Approach – Vision statements of the publicly traded hotel companies are transferred into motives and leadership styles using the LIWC. Findings – Transformational leadership and longer-tenured CEOs with high power and affiliation motives are associated with return on equity (ROE) whereas transactional leadership and older CEOs with high achievement motive affect return on assets (ROA). Originality of the research – The study opens a new approach to quantify the vision statements using LIWC and contributes to the relationship of leadership styles, leaders’ experiences, and financial performance.https://thm.fthm.hr/images/issues/vol23no2/2_Tran.pdftransactional leadershiptransformational leadershiproaand roe
spellingShingle Xuan Tran
Effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performance
Tourism and Hospitality Management
transactional leadership
transformational leadership
roa
and roe
title Effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performance
title_full Effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performance
title_fullStr Effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performance
title_full_unstemmed Effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performance
title_short Effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performance
title_sort effects of leadership styles on hotel financial performance
topic transactional leadership
transformational leadership
roa
and roe
url https://thm.fthm.hr/images/issues/vol23no2/2_Tran.pdf
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