Harmonious passion and procrastination: an exploration based on actor–partner interdependence model
International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management
ISSN: 0959-6119
Article publication date: 13 April 2023
Issue publication date: 8 November 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Considering the potential economic losses this might bring about, researchers have begun to explore ways to mitigate procrastination. Drawing on the job demands-resources model and the spillover-crossover model, this study aims to investigate the association between harmonious passion and procrastination at the intra- and interpersonal levels.
Design/methodology/approach
This study used a two-wave multisource questionnaire survey to acquire 256 cases nested in 128 coworker dyads from two hotels in Shanghai. Multilevel analysis and the actor–partner interdependence model were adopted to examine the hypotheses.
Findings
The results indicate that employees’ harmonious passion is indirectly negatively associated with procrastination (i.e., cyberslacking and soldiering) through workplace well-being at the intrapersonal level; employees’ harmonious passion is indirectly negatively associated with their coworkers’ procrastination (i.e., cyberslacking and soldiering) through the coworkers’ workplace well-being; and the crossover influence of employees’ harmonious passion on coworkers’ workplace well-being is contingent upon interpersonal conflict at the dyadic level, such that the crossover influence is stronger in condition of low rather than high interpersonal conflict.
Practical implications
Hotels are suggested to provide training programs to employees for enhancing their capabilities to maintain harmonious passion and promote their communication skills to decrease the likelihood to experience interpersonal conflict.
Originality/value
This study offers a comprehensive insight into the association between harmonious passion and procrastination in hospitality employees, which extends the understanding of the outcomes of harmonious passion and the profit of harmonious passion at the interpersonal level.
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Acknowledgements
Ethics approval statement: The study procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of University of Dalian University of Technology and were in line with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was signed and obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.
Funding statement: This research was supported by the Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Project of the Ministry of Education (Grant no. 22YJC630211), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant no. DUT21RC(3)089), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 72102220, 72161021, and 72192843) and MOE Social Science Laboratory of Digital Economic Forecasts and Policy Simulation at UCAS.
Citation
Zhang, Z., Shen, Y., Yang, M. and Zheng, J. (2023), "Harmonious passion and procrastination: an exploration based on actor–partner interdependence model", International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Vol. 35 No. 12, pp. 4407-4427. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-09-2022-1054
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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