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Ítem Challenges and Strategies for Employee Retention in the Hospitality Industry: A Review(MDPI, 2022-03) Ghani, B.; Zada, M.; Memon, K.; Ullah, R.; Khattak, A.; Han, H.; Ariza-Montes, A.; Araya-Castillo, L.Despite the issues that the hospitality industry encounters in retaining talented employees, little attention has been paid to the development of retention strategies, resulting in poor organizational performance and sustainable growth. The current study, therefore, aims to review and discuss the employee retention strategies in the hospitality industry in order to keep talented employees for a longer period of time. The study is based on past literature and peer-reviewed articles published between 2010 and 2020. The databases Web Knowledge, Emerald, Google Scholar, and Science Direct were used to find the relevant papers using the key words such as “Hospitality Industry”, “employee retention”, “employee turnover”, and “employees”. The findings of this study suggest that employee retention is contingent on employee satisfaction, which is comprised of four factors: sustainable positive work environment; sustainable growth opportunities; sustainable & effective communication; and sustainable & effective recruitment and selection practices. The paper contributes to a comprehensive review of the literature on employee retention strategies in the hospitality context. The study proposes a model for the hospitality industry to revamp its recruitment and selection practices in order to retain its employees. Furthermore, the study provides a focused directions that will aid in the establishment of employee retention strategies and practices. It was concluded that satisfied employees are less likely to leave their current job, while unsatisfied employees are expected to leave their current job for a better career opportunity. Managerial implications were also discussed.Ítem Fostering voluntourism satisfaction and future behaviour in island destinations(MDPI AG, 2021-03) Ngah, A.H.; Rahimi, A.H.M.; Gabarre, S.; Araya-Castillo, L.; Ariza-Montes, A.; Han, H.Volunteer tourism, which is commonly referred to as voluntourism, is currently a dynamic alternative travel option with a focus on sustainable tourism. However, existing literature reveals that voluntourism activities do not meet tourists’ expectation, fail to provide experiences related to environmental issues, and thus, leads to their dissatisfaction. Realising the importance of the satisfaction of the voluntourists’ future behaviour, applying the volunteer function inventory, coupled with environmental concern, the authors aim to identify factors influencing voluntourists’ satisfaction and present the outcomes of voluntourists’ satisfaction among island visitors in Malaysia. Using a purposive sampling method, the data were collected through a survey among voluntarists in east coast island tourist destinations. A total of 278 valid questionnaires were gathered from two sessions of data collection process. Due to the model’s complexity, SEM-PLS version 3.3.2. was employed to analyse the hypotheses of the study. The results of the study revealed that career and social functions, in contrast with other variables, do not positively influence the voluntourists’ satisfaction. The continuous intention and the intention to recommend factors positively support the research model. Studies on voluntourists in Malaysian island destinations are relatively novel. Besides enriching the literature on voluntourism, which is particularly scarce especially in the Asian setting, the findings are also beneficial to local governments and voluntourism organisations to develop suitable approaches and policies to promote voluntourism in island destinations. The study is limited to the island destination setting. Future studies should focus on other destinations such as cultural and heritage sites, because these destinations have sentimental values that should be preserved. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Ítem Measuring decent work in self-managed cooperatives: The costa rica case(Universidad del Pacífico Press, 2020) Vargas Montero, M.; Villalobos Rodríguez, G.; Araya-Castillo, L.Costa Rica has extensive experience in the development of cooperatives, which have occupied an important place in the country’s development strategies, generating a significant volume and diversity of initiatives. Historically, cooperatives have had an impact on human development through job creation and reduction of poverty and inequality. On the other hand, the concept of decent work is an integral approach to work and its promotion also means changing the way the global economy works so that its benefits reach more and more people. The objective of this article is to measure the variable of decent work in Costa Rica self-managed cooperatives.Ítem Occupational Risk Assessment in School Food Services: Instruments’ Construction and Internal Validation(MDPI, 2022-02) Ferreira, J.; Araújo, M.; Barroso, R.; Botelho, R.; Zandonadi, R.; Raposo, A.; Han, H.; Araya-Castillo, L.; Ariza-Montes, A.; Akutsu, R.Occupational risk assessment in school food services (SFS) should include factors related to occupational hygiene, physical–functional planning, worker health, and good meal production practices. This study aimed to develop an instrument to assess occupational risk in school food services and perform content validation and semantic evaluation. The research included three steps: (i) instrument’s development; (ii) content validation (Delphi); and (iii) semantic evaluation (focus group). After an extensive literature review, four instruments were developed. The Delphi was validated by the Content Validity Coefficient (CVC), with an agreement greater than 90%. The semantic analysis was performed through four meetings using a focus group. After the content and semantic evaluation, there were four final instruments: Identification of Socioeconomic and Demographic Conditions of Food Handlers and Geographical Mapping of SFS (30 items); Knowledge and Attitudes in Food Hygiene Assessment (33 items); Perception of Occupational Risks (16 items); and Mapping of Occupational Risks in SFS (97 items). Instrument’s content validation and semantic evaluation contributed to constructing and validating forms for analyzing occupational risks and adjusting respondents’ language and sociocultural components.Ítem Proposal, development and validation of the scale: Distance Higher Education Service Quality (DIHESQ)(Universidad del Pacífico Press, 2022) Araya-Castillo, L.; Bernardo, M.; Ganga Contreras, F.; Barrientos Oradini, N.Higher education sectors have experienced high levels of competence. In this scenario, some universities have responded through the offer of studies in non-traditional modality (distance). Various scales have been proposed to measure the quality of service in higher education, but few studies have focused on distance modality (non-traditional modality). This is relevant, since distance higher education has characteristics that differentiate it from higher education in traditional modality (presential). Given this, this research focuses on the proposal, development and validation of a scale of service quality measurement in distance higher education, which is called Distance Higher Education Service Quality (DIHESQ). A three-stage methodology is applied. First, the DIHESQ measurement scale is proposed ensuring its content validity, later the analysis of unidimensionality is applied and finally the psychometric properties of it are analyzed. It is concluded that the DIHESQ model is second order, reflective and multidimensional, and it is composed of the following dimensions: (a) teachers and teaching; (b) curriculum plan and study material; (c) evaluation and feedback; (d) administration and organization; (e) functional platform; (f) emotional platform; (g) institution support; and (i) social and labor.Ítem Socioemotional wealth, entrepreneurial orientation and international performance of family firms(Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2020) Hernández-Perlines, F.; Ariza-Montes, A.; Araya-Castillo, L.This paper analyses the relationships between the socioemotional wealth, entrepreneurial orientation and international performance of family firms. This research is pioneering in that it seeks to explain the international performance of family firms from the non-economic perspective of entrepreneurial orientation determined by socioemotional wealth. Second generation structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) using SmartPLS 3.2.8 software was applied to data from 106 Spanish family firms. The study shows that considering socioemotional wealth substantially improves the capacity of entrepreneurial orientation to explain variation in the international performance of family firms. When only entrepreneurial orientation is included in the model, the explained variance of international performance is 34.2%. However, when socioemotional wealth is included in the model as an antecedent of international performance, the explained variance increases to 42.6%.Ítem Sustainable businesses speak to the heart of consumers: Looking at sustainability with a marketing lens to reap banking consumers’ loyalty(MDPI AG, 2021-04) Ahmad, N.; Mahmood, A.; Ariza-Montes, A.; Han, H.; Hernández-Perlines, F.; Araya-Castillo, L.; Scholz, M.Achieving consumer loyalty will remain a prime objective of every business in the current volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment (VUCA), which demands some out-of-thebox thinking on the part of policymakers to sustain the competitive advantage. Sustainability has been emerging as a “new normal” for all industries of the present era, which forces all sectors to incorporate it into their business operations. There have been studies on the relationship between sustainability and consumer loyalty, but these studies are inconclusive, further establishing the importance of more research in this area. In this frame of reference, the present research objective is to test the dimensional impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities (economic, environmental, social) on banking consumers’ loyalty in the context of Pakistan. The data were collected from different bank account holders, which were then analyzed through the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique in AMOS. The results revealed that all three dimensions of CSR positively relate to consumer loyalty. The banking industry policymakers can benefit from the findings of the present study to understand sustainability from the lens of marketing to drive a higher level of consumer loyalty. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.Ítem When geography matters: International diversification and firm performance of spanish multinationals(SAGE Publications Inc., 2020) Mendoza, X.; Espinosa-Méndez, C.; Araya-Castillo, L.This paper studies how the nature and shape of the relationship between inter-national diversification (ID) and performance (P) may vary according to a firm’s geographical focus of internationalization. Using a sample of Spanish multinational firms for the 2004—2012 period we find an M-shaped relationship. However, significant differences are found when the different geographical foci of internationalization are considered. Strong support is found when firms adopt a regional focus (an inverted S-curve when the ID measure refers to the number of foreign countries and an M-curve when it refers to the size of the network of foreign sub-sidiaries), a biregional focus (an S-curve) and a semiglobal focus (an inverted S-curve but also an M-curve with foreign subsidiaries). These findings and their pattern suggest the critical impor-tance of the country of origin and the geographical focus of internationalization in explaining the relationship between ID—P.