across Arabs in various countries (Rice, 2003). Rice (2003) proposes that Arab
employees who are high on mastery value are also highly intrinsically motivated.
Furthermore, intrinsic motivation as a personal resource has not received much
empirical attention in the hospitality management literature (Babakus et al., 2008;
Karatepe and Aleshinloye, 2009). Thus, this study centers on intrinsic motivation as
another personal resource.