FACTORS BEHIND CONTRACTUAL EMPLOYEES' MOTIVATION: AN EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS APPROACH

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.