Correlations Between Dimensions of Work Motivation and Dimensions of Job Satisfaction of Employees in Hotels and Travel Agencies
Značaj internog marketinga – motivacije za rad i zadovoljstva poslom zaposlenih u sektoru turizma i hotelijerstva
Abstract
Rapid development of service sector at global level prompted many researchers to examine specifics of work in this sector. One of specifics is so-called service meeting. During the service meeting there is an emotional exchange between provider and customers, so the work motivation and satisfaction of employees is important for perception of the high quality of delivered service by consumers. Subject of this paper is related to development of internal marketing in order to determine correlations between dimensions of job satisfaction and dimensions of motivational potential of the job, as important aspects of gaining the customers’ satisfaction, according to the Hekman-Oldham model in selected hotels and travel agencies in Belgrade and Novi Sad. According to this model, five basic characteristics of the job (diversity of work, identity of the task, importance of the task, autonomy and feedback) are antecedents of work motivation and job satisfaction. Using the Hakman-Oldham theory, one needs to find out the extent to which the job in hotel and travel agency contains aforementioned basic characteristics, or whether the jobs in these two sectors have motivational potential. The aim of the paper is to provide recommendations for development of internal marketing on the basis of increasing the employees’ work motivation and their job satisfaction in different organizations that are operating in service sector (tourism and hospitality), in order to provide services of high quality and to gain the customers’ satisfaction.
Apstrakt
Brz razvoj sevisnog sektora na globalnom nivou podstakao je brojne istraživače da ispituju specifičnosti rada u ovom sektoru. Jedna od specifičnosti je takozvani uslužni susret tokom kojeg se isporučuje usluga u neposrednom kontaktu provajdera i korisnika usluge. Tokom uslužnog susreta dolazi i do emocionalne razmene između davaoca i korisnika usluga, i stoga su motivacija za rad i zadovoljstvo poslom zaposlenih od velike važnosti za percepciju visokog kvaliteta isporučene usluge od strane njenog konzumenta. Predmet ovog rada je razvoj internog marketinga kroz istraživanje motivacije za rad i zadovoljstvo poslom zaposlenih, koji su važna karika u postizanju satisfakcije potrošača. Osnovna istraživačka pitanju su utvrđivanje korelacija između dimenzija zadovoljstva poslom i dimenzija motivacionog potencijala posla prema modelu Hekman-Oldham-a u odabranim hotelima i turističkim agencijama u Beogradu i Novom Sadu. Prema ovom modelu pet bazičnih karakteristika posla (raznolikost posla, identitet zadatka, važnost zadatka, autonomnost i povratna informacija) su antecedenti motivacije za rad i zadovoljstva poslom. Cilj rada je da se daju preporuke menadžmentu ljudskih resursa u različitim organizacijama u servisnom (turističkom i hotelijerskom) sektoru kako da razviju interni marketing kroz povećanu motivisanost zaposlenih za rad i njihovo zadovoljstvo poslom kako bi se ispororučila usluga visokog kvaliteta i postiglo zadovoljstvo korisnika usluge.
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