1. Introduction
This paper follows on from research conducted by Halakoo (2013), which looked at the extent to which the traditional workplace motivators might promote job relocation within the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (hereinafter ‘ASEAN’) by staff in the tourism and hospitality industry in Thailand consequent to the implementation of the ASEAN Mutual Recognition Agreement on Tourism Professionals (hereinafter the ‘MRATP’).
The traditional workplace motivators considered in Halakoo’s research study includes: autonomy, feedback, skill variety, task identity and task significance as well as the determinants of organizational commitment (Morrow, 1993, and Ng et al., 2007, cited in Halakoo 2013). Halakoo’s research concluded that Thais working in the tourism and hospitality industry may be induced to make the move to work in specific ASEAN countries once the MRATP is implemented provided higher salaries, linked to higher positions and improved promotional prospects, were offered.
This paper investigates another perspective on the issues researched by Halakoo (2013) and focuses, not on the motivators of job