The impact of ethics towards job creativity: a case study of “A” hotel in Samutprakan Province, Thailand

Abstract

This research focuses on how to understand Job Creativity of employees. The research questions were raised based on an emotional intelligence when interacting among colleagues in the same level as well as senior level. Moreover, based on the pilot study, employees are concerned about ethical behavior and ethical leadership towards job creativity of employees. This study use census population whom are employees working in “A” hotel. The questionnaire was distributed to 100 employees. There were no respondent restrictions in demographic aspects. This study found that there are two factors affected job creativity comprising emotional intelligence when interacting with colleague in senior level and ethical Leadership. This research is limited only to A Hotel which is located in Samutprakan province. Therefore, it is not in a rural area for which the business behavior will be more seasonal in terms of tourist intensity by season. That could affect the employees’ behavior and personality. However, this research cannot comprehensively conclude that employees of hotels in different locations will have similar results to this study. Another limitation is that this study is made in particular period of time which is from May to August 2018. The employees’ behaviors collected from the questionnaire do not cover a long period of time, meaning that over the longer period of time or at a different time, results could be difference.