How can destructive leadership affect young workers in the tourism industry?

Abstract

Leadership is essential in every organization, but what happen when the leader is working against the organization or the subordinates? The aim of this thesis was to investigate how young workers in the tourism and hospitality industry perceive destructive leadership. As well as see how this will affect their overall work satisfaction and views on the future.

In Norway are there many young workers in the tourism and hospitality industry. It was therefore interesting to look at students that work part-time in this industry. As well as how these students perceive destructive leadership concerning issues connected to the leader and them personally. Their overall satisfaction at work and their views on the future in the organization was also included. A quantitative questionnaire has been conducted and distributed to the bachelor students enrolled at The Norwegian school of Hotel Management. After the questionnaire was the relationship between the construct calculated and it shown that there was a relationship between all of the investigated constructs. This indicates that the young workers are affected by destructive leadership concerning their overall work satisfaction and future views in various forms and degrees.