How Job Insecurity Affects Innovative Work Behavior in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry? The Roles of Knowledge Hiding Behavior and Team Anti-Citizenship Behavior

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

  This empirical article studies concepts of job insecurity, innovative work behavior, hiding behavior, and team anti-citizenship behavior in the context of hosptality and tourism industry in Egypt. Authors analyzed 457 responses quantitatively. Results of the research provide insights for tourism practitioners in various aspects. One of them underlines the negative relationship between job insecurity and employee innovation behavior. This data underlines the importance of lower employee turnover rates in tourism industry and the necessity for empowerment of employees and keeping them in the organization as long as possible. Similarly, knowledge-hiding behavior and team anti-citizenship behavior were found inconsistent with innovative work behavior. In short, job insecurity perception of employees create several negative impacts on hospitality industry. Authors can focus more on the reasons of job insecurity perception. Do they feel insecure because of the nature of industry, organizational culture, macroeconomic issues of the country, management styles applied şn companies?"

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Reviewer 2 Report

Comments and Suggestions for the authors:

Paper has potential but needs a few minor improvements. My comments are presented below. I strongly recommend you to revise your article considering these remarks:

The questions are related to the "Introduction" and "Results" sections.

The "Introduction" section:

In order to expand the "Introduction" section, it is proposed to add materials related to real strategies of organizations that have achieved effective improvement of innovative behavior of their employees or staff. In other words, it is necessary to provide several examples (about 5-6) in more detail about the advantages and disadvantages of strategies of organizations that strive to develop the innovative behavior of their employees.

Section "Results"

For scientific research, the data collected from employees working in five-star hotels in Egypt and category A travel agencies, with 457 valid responses, are considered insufficient for a more detailed scientific justification. However, despite the small amount of data from participants/respondents, the authors attempted to model the information in this section, demonstrating good analytical skills, the ability to analyze and systematize the collected information. Additionally, this section lacks information on the total number of category (A) travel agencies and hotels that are actually operating in the market. Furthermore, I believe it is necessary to supplement and scientifically justify, within the framework of the research, the percentage of participants/respondents that are representative of the market.

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Reviewer 3 Report

Dear author, I really appreciate your efforts, however, I believe that while building the arguments for justifying the study you need to strengthen the work in terms of theoretical contribution, as theoretically the contribution of the paper is week and need to be strengthen, especially theoretically. In the literature several scholarly works should be added and in my opinion exhaustive literature review has not been conducted to enrich the theoretical contributions. The topic is original and need of the time, but I was unable to find the relevance with regard to theory and practice in the objectives of the study. The author needs to identify the specific gap that the current study will fill in the body of knowledge? There is relatively less critical analysis and less emphasis to the subject area compared with other published materials. I recommend you to add the following works in the literature;

Asad, M., Asif, M. U., Bakar, L. J., & Sheikh, U. A. (2021). Transformational leadership, sustainable human resource practices, sustainable innovation and performance of SMEs. 2021 International Conference on Decision Aid Sciences and Application (DASA) (pp. 797-802). Sakheer: IEEE. doi:10.1109/DASA53625.2021.9682400

Then the methodology section need to be enhanced by writing the similar studies that have used the same methodologies. Thus, in methodology specifically you need improvements in the form of linking your methodology with the latest studies that have been conducted in the field. An example for the methodology can be found here;

I strongly recommend you follow the suggested articles to strengthen your study. I strongly recommend you link your findings with the suggested findings to improve the quality of your paper. Then it will then have a significant impact in the body of knowledge.

Quality of English is acceptable but has significant margin for improvement. 

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Reviewer 4 Report

The paper is standard. Focus on improvements in following areas:

 

1. Introduction:

 Overall Style & Structure: The introductory section requires a revision in style and structure. It is crucial for the introduction to immediately captivate readers and lay a foundation for the ensuing content. The first few sentences, in particular, could be clearer and more impactful.

 2. Background and Literature:

 While the current background section is decent, it would benefit significantly by integrating insights from some of the most suitable articles in the field. Consider referring to When talking about general impact of innovations Qiu, L., Yu, R., Hu, F., Zhou, H., & Hu, H. (2023). How can China's medical manufacturing listed firms improve their technological innovation efficiency? An analysis based on a three-stage DEA model and corporate governance configurations, and possibly incorporating, content from the following studies to enhance the article’s robustness: Li, L et al (2023). Quantitatively Interpreting Residents Happiness Prediction by Considering Factor–Factor Interactions. : Li, et al. (2023). Is stress always bad? the role of job stress in producing innovative ideas

Yang, F., & Deng, H. (2020). The impact of empowering leader behavior on employees' voice behavior: the role of person-environment fit and the golden mean.

Gao, H., Shi, D., & Zhao, B. (2021). Does good luck make people overconfident? Evidence from a natural experiment in the stock market.

3. Hypotheses Development:

 Clarity: The hypotheses are not stated with the necessary precision. While the paper delves deeper than establishing mere correlations between variables, this is not reflected adequately in the hypotheses. Ensure that the hypotheses explicitly communicate the nature and direction of the relationships you've explored, and avoid oversimplifying the statements.

4. Methodology and Results:

Visual Representations: It is strongly recommended to include figures illustrating the research model. Visual representations can offer clarity, aiding in the readers’ comprehension of the methods and results. Such figures would visually break down complex processes, interactions, or stages of your research model.

style needs to be improved

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Round 2

Reviewer 3 Report

I believe that sufficient ammendmends have been made to bring the paper in publishable form

English is acceptable, however, there is a room to improve. 

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Reviewer 4 Report

does the study only test correlation? if no why do hypotheses suggest only correlation

fine

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