Effects of Transformational Leadership and Intrinsic Motivations on Organizational Innovation in Hotels and Travel Agencies: The Mediating Roles of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Organizational Commitment

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https://doi.org/10.29036/5hye2z53

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organizational innovation, transformational leadership, intrinsic motivations, organizational citizenship behavior, organizational commitment, hospitality, travel agencies

Abstract

This study examines the cause-effect relationships among transformational leadership (TFL), intrinsic motivations (IMs), and organizational innovation (OI), mediated through organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) and organizational commitment (OC) in Egyptian hotels and travel agents. Such an investigation may aid in filling a leadership research gap in a developing country like Egypt. The Leader-Member Exchange theory, reflected in TFL, was employed as the theoretical foundation of this study. A quantitative design that aligns with such causal connections was developed through a questionnaire survey distributed to a convenience sample of supervisors. Data from 382 hotel respondents and 315 travel agency respondents (n = 697) comprised relevant employees and were collected between March and July 2022. Nine hypotheses are postulated and examined quantitatively using the PLS-SEM technique. The results revealed that: (1) TFL has positively affected OCB, OC, and IMs; (2) IMs have positively affected OCB and OC; (3) OCB and OC have positively affected OI; and (4) OCB and OC act as partial mediators between TFL, IMs, and OI. The study's main contribution is modelling the relationship among the investigated variables in the Egyptian T&H sector. Our study confirms the importance of dyadic interaction between leaders and their followers. Practitioners should exploit a high-quality TFL to obtain favourable employee outcomes, leading to high levels of organizational goals. The study presents the TFL style as a mechanism for generating positive intrinsic attitudes and promoting employees’ innovation intentions. Further research can use our results to expand leadership appraisals from other perspectives.

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Author Biographies

  • Mostafa Abdulmawla, Faculty of Tourism & Hotels, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt & Higher Institute for Specific Studies, Cairo, Egypt

    E-mail: maa44@fayoum.edu.eg

    Holds a PhD in Tourism and Hospitality through joint supervision between Fayoum University, Egypt, and the University of Salento, Italy. The researcher has won several competitive scholarships from different donors, i.e., the Egyptian government, the American University of Cairo, and the Italian government. He also won the Fayoum University Award 2021 for the best PhD thesis. His research interest is hospitality marketing. He has published in several prestigious Q1 and Q2 international journals such as the International Journal of Hospitality Management.

  • Lamiaa Moustafa Mohamed, Faculty of Tourism & Hotels, Matrouh University, Egypt

    E-mail: lamiaa.moustafa@mau.edu.eg

    She has achieved many multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research records, either joint or single, which have been published in international journals. All of her courses are structured around three interactive themes: an emphasis on cooperative learning techniques (discussion, debate, brainstorming, think-pair-share), self-learning techniques (research project, one-minute paper, self-reading), and problem-based learning techniques (case study, analysis and criticism, and simulation).

  • Sayed Darwish Elgarhy, Center of Poll & Measuring, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Higher Institute of Tourism and Hotels, Alexandria, Egypt

    E-mail: sd1118@fayoum.edu.eg

    Holds a PhD in Tourism and Hospitality from Fayoum University, Egypt. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Higher Institute of Tourism and Hotels, King Marriott, Alexandria, Egypt.  His research interests are co-creation, entrepreneurial orientation, research methodology, data collection, and structural equation modeling-based quantitative research in tourism. His work has been published in a range of reputable journals, including the  International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, Tourism Recreation Research, Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism, and others.

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Published

2025-05-30

How to Cite

Abdulmawla, M., Mohamed, L. M., & Elgarhy, S. D. (2025). Effects of Transformational Leadership and Intrinsic Motivations on Organizational Innovation in Hotels and Travel Agencies: The Mediating Roles of Organizational Citizenship Behavior and Organizational Commitment. Journal of Tourism and Services, 16(30), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.29036/5hye2z53