Abstract:
Purpose:
This study is an attempt to explore the reasons of contractual employees to seek, maintain and
to sustain their temporary jobs with a comparable and equal motivation along with
deterministic attitude and perception.
Methodology:
As the study was exploratory in nature and approach, exploratory factor analysis was used to
elicit the latent motivational structure and dimensions. There were no hypotheses developed
for the study. Exploratory factor analysis was used with principal components analysis as the
main extraction method for the five factors or dimensions out of twenty-one variables
operationalized for the study. Orthogonal rotation method was used and the rotated component
matrix yielded five factors.
Findings:
The extracted five factors (dimensions) were named accordingly based on their respective
factor loadings. The summarization of reasons produced five dimensions of the latent
motivational structure of contractual employees’ psyche inherent within their perception while
seeking, maintaining, and sustaining temporary jobs. The dimensions consisted intrinsic and
extrinsic aspects of factors that influenced contractual employees and were found to be
coincident with theoretical literature.
Practical Implications:
It was concluded that the latent motivational stiucture produced by the study is a combination
of indigenous personal and external factors that drive employees’ motivation to even select
and choose a temporary job as a contractual employee to survive the changing dynamics of the
corporate world in Pakistani context.
