International Journal of Management, IT & Engineering
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Non-Monetary Incentives: Nexus between Employees
Motivation and Job Performance at Selected Hotels in Ghana
Eric Ohemeng Sarpong
Shao Yun-Fei
Cephas P.K Coffie
Abstract
In the era of steep competition in the hospitality industry of Ghana, job
performance is central to the ability of hotels to attract and maintain
customers, achieve set-up targets and also survive the competitive market.
With theories and studies pinpointing to the role of motivation in employees’
job performance, our study assesses non-monetary incentives role in
employees’ performance at selected hotels in Ghana. Using a sample of 172
respondents and response rate of 78.7% from 68 selected hotels in Ghana, we
analyze for the multiplicative effect of employees’ characteristics, tangible
non-monetary incentives, and Social non-monetary incentives and, job-
related non-monetary incentives on employee job performance using a
hierarchical logistic model. The findings show that the probability of
employees to improve job performance is higher for male, younger, more
educated and employees with few duration of working years at the hotels.
Further, the hierarchical logistic regression models show that tangible non-
monetary incentives, social non-monetary incentives and, job-related non-
monetary incentives altogether has an impact on the probability of employees
to improve their job performance. Our results provide valuable insight into
non-monetary incentives and employee job performance in hotels and could
be extended to the hospitality industry in general.
Keywords:
Non-monetary;
Incentives;
Job performance;
Hospitality;
Employees.
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Author correspondence:
Eric Ohemeng Sarpong,
Doctorate Program, Management Engineering
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Email: eric@std.uestc.edu.cn
Doctorate Program, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Professor, School of management and Economics, University of Economics Science and
Technology of China
***Doctorate Program, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China