THE IMPACT OF BENEFITS AND SERVICES ON MANAGER ENGAGEMENT AND MANAGER RETENTION IN TOURISM INDUSTRY: ENHANCED BY THE EFFECT OF MANAGEMENT LEVEL
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Manager engagement and retention are vital to the success and organizational performance of many
service sector organisations. Maintaining manager retention is a major challenge that many hotel
enterprises face today. It is critical that organizations give greater importance to manager engagement,
motivation and retention and therefore establish an efficient benefits and services strategy for retaining
these core managers for the persistence and achievement of the organization. Employee motivation
and retention have gained even more significance as a result of the heightened dynamism in hotel
business within the tourism sector. As the focal point of Turkish economy, recent developments in the
tourism and hotel enterprises have caused organizations to accelerate their human resources activities
and accordingly more attention has been given to the employee satisfaction practices in this industry.
Herzberg, in his hygiene-motivation theory, classifies the factors that maintain job satisfaction under two
groups as motivating and hygiene factors 1. Herzberg says that benefits and services are hygiene factors
but they do not have motivating effect. Mottaz (1985:375), in his study conducted among 1385 service
sector employees in the USA, indicated that motivating (intrinsic) factors have greater effect on employee
motivation than hygiene (extrinsic) factors. DeVoe and Iyengar (2004:47), in their study conducted
among 1760 service sector employees of a global company operating in Northern USA, Asia and Latin
America demonstrated similar results. Brislin et.al., (2005:97), with their study conducted among 623
service and different sector employees in Japan also indicated that motivating (intrinsic) factors have
greater effect on employee motivation than hygiene (extrinsic) factors. This study, in contrary, aims to
identify and study the effect of benefits and services on manager engagement and retention in hotel
organizations in Turkey. The study was conducted among three different levels of hotel management,
namely, top level, middle level and operational level managers. The results of the study show that
while there is a positive and significant relationship between Benefits and Services and Management
Engagement, there is no relationship between Benefits and Services and Management Retention.
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
Türkçe
Konular
Ekonomi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
25 Aralık 2016
Gönderilme Tarihi
25 Aralık 2016
Kabul Tarihi
1 Aralık 2016
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2016 Cilt: 38 Sayı: 2
