Influence of Employee Intrinsic Motivations on Career Sustainability in the Travel Agency and Tour Operator Companies in Mombasa County, Kenya
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Date
2019
Authors
Kipkosgei, Bitok
Munyiri, Esther Kagure
Nzioka, Alice Mueni
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Academia edu
Abstract
This paper aims to move the research field on sustainable careers forward by analyzing the relationship
between employee intrinsic motivation and career sustainability among tours and travel companies in
Mombasa County, Kenya. Employees with high intrinsic motivations can experience higher career
sustainability. However, tours and travel organizations are facing a challenge in holding their intrinsically
motivated employees in order to keep trend with the current competition. The study elaborates on core
theoretical frameworks useful in understanding of what intrinsic motivation factors contribute to career
sustainability. The findings are of particular interest to the public and private sector analysts as it will
assist them to monitor accurately the tourism labour market situation using a mixed methods research. A
pre-test of the study was carried out through administering questionnaires to ten employees with four
human resource managers participating in semi-structured interview schedules. Data collection
comprised of interview schedules to twenty human resource managers and administering questionnaires
to three hundred and fifty respondents, where three hundred and forty-six (346) fully filled questionnaires
were analyzed. The results from this study have shown that intrinsic motivational factors are significantly
related to career sustainability among employees in the tours and travel sector. This indicates that for
career sustainability to be realized more, employees should be given freedom to make decisions and
provided with work tasks that are interesting and challenging to them. Finally, the paper proposes a
research agenda that is hoped to spur scholars to examine the topic in more detail in future empirical
work.
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Keywords
Career sustainability, career, employee, intrinsic motivations, travel sector
Citation
Kipkosgei, B., Munyiri, E. K., & Nzioka, A. M. (2019). Influence of employee Intrinsic Motivations on career sustainability in the Travel Agency and Tour Operator companies in Mombasa County, Kenya.