Abstract:

This study aims that investigate of hotel employees’ social loafing behavior and relation with the organizational culture. The research’s main group is composed of 4 and 5 star hotels in Istanbul. The questionnaires were sent to the hotel business which agreed to participate in this research study and we had 316 valid surveys in return. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS 20.0 program. Research findings showed that perceived organizational culture, socialization and solidarity affects to social loafing behavior perception. According to this, chain and 5 star hotel workers’ communal culture perception is higher than independent and 4 star hotel workers. In addition which are component of organizational culture, it has seen that solidariton has significant negative effect on social loafing behaviour than socialization. In this respect, in the tourism and hospitality sector which is the collective and group working are so important, the businesses should create communal culture with improving their social and solidaristic character so they will prevent undesirable behaviours like social loafing

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