Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-20-2025

Publication Title

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management

Volume

37

Issue

6

First page number:

1

Last page number:

53

Abstract

Purpose – Despite increasing research attention on hospitality and tourism workplace sexual harassment, there is a lack of holistic understanding of its nomological networks. This meta-analysis aims to synthesize the antecedents and consequences of workplace sexual harassment in the context of tourism and hospitality.

Design/methodology/approach – A total of 184 effect sizes from 39 independent hospitality and tourism studies (N=12,093) were included in this meta-analysis. Comprehensive MetaAnalysis software was used to analyze the results.

Findings – The results supported victim age and work environment as antecedents of workplace sexual harassment. Workplace sexual harassment affects work-related (job attitudes and job performance) and personal-related outcomes (well-being and reactions). Among these, the work environment had the strongest impact on workplace sexual harassment, and reactions were the most significantly impacted by it. The moderating roles of power distance, female percentage, and perpetrator types were also supported.

Implication – This study quantitively summarizes the antecedents and outcomes of workplace sexual harassment in the hospitality and tourism literature while identifying moderators. The findings provide directions for future research to expand the literature on sexual harassment in the hospitality and tourism workplace.

Originality – This study is among the first to conduct a meta-analysis of workplace sexual harassment in the hospitality and tourism industry. The results systematically examine its antecedents, outcomes, and potential moderators by reducing individual study’s sampling bias.

Keywords

Workplace sexual harassment; meta-analysis; power distance; female percentage; perpetrator types

Disciplines

Hospitality Administration and Management | Industrial and Organizational Psychology

File Format

pdf

File Size

1011 KB

Language

English

Permissions

© 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited. This Author Accepted Manuscript is provided for your own personal use only. It may not be used for resale, reprinting, systematic distribution, emailing, or for any other commercial purpose without the permission of the publisher.

Rights

IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/

Publisher Citation

Yunxuan Carrie Zhang, Cass Shum; Synthesizing MeToo: a meta-analysis of workplace sexual harassment in hospitality and tourism. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management 22 April 2025; 37 (6): 2135–2152. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCHM-10-2024-1483

Download

UNLV article access

Search your library

Share

COinS