Mahmood Naderi Bani; Ali Delshad; Fatemeh Mohammadi; Marziyyeh adibzadeh
Volume 10, Issue 29 , April 2016, , Pages 69-93
Abstract
In recent decades, information technology (IT) has become a key element in all aspects of people’s lives, especially in their working and professional lives. Application of IT in various sectors, businesses and organizations and its increasing growth, has provided a special importance for investigating ...
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In recent decades, information technology (IT) has become a key element in all aspects of people’s lives, especially in their working and professional lives. Application of IT in various sectors, businesses and organizations and its increasing growth, has provided a special importance for investigating the effective factors of IT acceptance, especially in hospitality-related businesses. Despite of the essence advantages of IT, accepting and using of it, has encountered with the staff resistance. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting hotel staff acceptance of information technology. Descriptive survey has been determined as the research methodology. The hotels’ staff in Shiraz city have been selected as the statistical population. SPSS20 software and Smart PLS have been used to analyze the collected data. The results showed that such factors as attitudes, common beliefs toward IT and subjective norms have a significant and positive impact on accepting and applying IT.