5.2. Limitations and future research
Despite its implications, several limitations of the study need to
be addressed. First, the sample consists of employees at hotels in
the food and beverage division, family restaurants and contractmanaged
foodservices as a part of foodservice industry. Therefore,
the generalizability of the results may be limited to the employees
in those particular categories. In addition, the employees were
selected based on their manager’s willingness to participate in this
study. Therefore, managers’ encouragement to participate may
have affected some responses.
From a methodological stance, future studies should refine the
measurement items used in this study and revalidate the findings.
This study emphasized the importance of employees’ perceptions
of business ethical value. However, the results did not support the
proposed direct effect of business ethical value and turnover
intent. Therefore, future research should assess crucial factors that
act as mediating variables between business ethical value and
turnover intent.