The aim of this paper to examine the motivational factors of Bahraini employees who currently work in stores of luxury brands and in hospitality sector. So far little attention has been paid to researching the motivational factors behind the limited number of Bahraini males and females in both luxury and hospitality sector in Bahrain, while, many researches have been done tackling this issue in other countries such as USA, China and Thailand. No similar research has been done on Bahrain.
The research to date tended to focus on motivation, job satisfaction and culture. I visited Burberry and met a young Bahraini lady working there, she was very helpful. A year later, I met the same young lady working for Fendi, so that was clear that this young lady will get a job here easily because she has the experience working in this filed before. I kept noticing the increased number of Bahrainis (but still the number is small) working in luxury boutiques and in hotels. Most of Bahrainis, university graduates tend to seek job opportunities in banks, ministries and big companies in Bahrain, but not seeing this luxury and hospitality fields as promising opportunities. That is why I had interest in studying the work environment in these two sectors to identify how motivating is to work there and shed the light that these two sectors have vacancies for Bahraini university graduates to join. My background working in HR field in Industry and currently teaching HR major courses at Bahrain Polytechnic business faculty, I have this passion to discover work environment in different fields, what motivates current exiting employees to work there and how is it culturally acceptable.
This research seeks to identify the factors that motivate Bahraini employees working in luxury industry as customer service staff, sales person in order to uncover the motivational factors affecting Bahrainis working in these two sectors.
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