Ethical leadership and work values practices employed by restaurant managers in Quezon Province

International Journal of Research Studies in Management
Tourism Educators and Movers of the Philippines Special Issue
2022 Volume 10 Issue 1

Available Online: 24 February 2022

Author/s:

Martinez, Jose Romulus A.*
Lyceum of the Philippines University Batangas, Philippines (jommartinez26@gmail.com)

Abstract:

The study examined the existing or current ethical leadership and work values practices employed by restaurant managers in Quezon Province. This includes obtaining the profile of the respondents in terms of age, sex, educational attainment, and number of years in service, determining the ethical practices on leadership in terms of people orientation, fairness, power sharing, ethical guidance, and role clarification and integrity, and the work values on leadership in terms of cognitive, affective, and materials. The study used a questionnaire as the instrument of the study with the restaurant employee as the respondents. The statistical tools used were percentage, frequency distribution, weighted mean, and Cronbach Alpha.  Based on the results majority of the restaurant employees are 25 years old and below who belongs in Generation Z, male, and in service for 2- 5 year. Most attained a bachelor’s degree for their education. As answered by the respondents, the ethical practices on leadership that they often apply people orientation, power sharing, ethical guidance, and role clarification and integrity; for the work values on leadership, the cognitive values; fairness is sometimes practiced. It was found out that there is a there is significant relationship between assessment in ethical practices on leadership in terms of people orientation, power sharing, ethical guidance and role clarification and integrity and assessment in work values on leadership in terms of cognitive, affective and materials. The researcher proposed a guideline to develop and retain the ethics and work values on leadership to enhance the interpersonal and professional relationship between the managers and the employees.

Keywords: ethical leadership, restaurant managers, work values

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2022.13

Cite this article:
Martinez, J. R. A. (2022). Ethical leadership and work values practices employed by restaurant managers in Quezon Province. International Journal of Research Studies in Management, 10(1), 41-53. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrsm.2022.13

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