Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi

Technology is gradually becoming a critical source of sustainable competitive advantages in the hospitality industry. In view of the benefits that IT provides to the hospitality industry, the extensive use of technology would appear to be an inevitable trend. However, despite the increasing use of t...

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Main Author: Hemdi, Mohamad Abdullah
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pulau Pinang & Pusat Penerbitan Universiti (UPENA) 2009
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14816/
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description Technology is gradually becoming a critical source of sustainable competitive advantages in the hospitality industry. In view of the benefits that IT provides to the hospitality industry, the extensive use of technology would appear to be an inevitable trend. However, despite the increasing use of technology in the hospitality industry, few studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between the external variables and the technology acceptance model (TAM) framework to explain the acceptance behavior of hospitality organizations. This paper makes an attempt to investigate the relationship between information system quality, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and attitude towards use by adopting an extended TAM. 240 frontline employees from twelve 5-star hotels in Penang, Malaysia participated in this study. Empirical findings indicate that the significance of all but two new variables. As a result, the study is able to find the acceptance of hotel front office systems (HFOSs) from the perspective of hotel frontline employees through the external variables of information system quality in order to enhance the model. Additionally, the paper presents theoretical and practical contributions for hotel managers and hotel information system (HIS) practitioners in order to increase frontlines acceptance of HFOS.
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spelling uitm-148162016-10-06T05:58:53Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14816/ Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi esteem Hemdi, Mohamad Abdullah Customer services. Customer relations Office automation Technology is gradually becoming a critical source of sustainable competitive advantages in the hospitality industry. In view of the benefits that IT provides to the hospitality industry, the extensive use of technology would appear to be an inevitable trend. However, despite the increasing use of technology in the hospitality industry, few studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between the external variables and the technology acceptance model (TAM) framework to explain the acceptance behavior of hospitality organizations. This paper makes an attempt to investigate the relationship between information system quality, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and attitude towards use by adopting an extended TAM. 240 frontline employees from twelve 5-star hotels in Penang, Malaysia participated in this study. Empirical findings indicate that the significance of all but two new variables. As a result, the study is able to find the acceptance of hotel front office systems (HFOSs) from the perspective of hotel frontline employees through the external variables of information system quality in order to enhance the model. Additionally, the paper presents theoretical and practical contributions for hotel managers and hotel information system (HIS) practitioners in order to increase frontlines acceptance of HFOS. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pulau Pinang & Pusat Penerbitan Universiti (UPENA) 2009 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14816/1/AJ_MOHAMAD%20ADBULLAH%20HEMDI%20ESTEEM%2009.pdf Hemdi, Mohamad Abdullah (2009) Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi. (2009) ESTEEM Academic Journal <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/ESTEEM_Academic_Journal.html>, 5 (2). pp. 1-19. ISSN 1675-7939
spellingShingle Customer services. Customer relations
Office automation
Hemdi, Mohamad Abdullah
Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi
title Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi
title_full Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi
title_fullStr Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi
title_full_unstemmed Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi
title_short Service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : A test of technology acceptance model / Mohamad Abdullah Hemdi
title_sort service employees' acceptance of hotel front office systems : a test of technology acceptance model / mohamad abdullah hemdi
topic Customer services. Customer relations
Office automation
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/14816/