INVESTIGATION INTO EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION

The aim of the paper is to identify the motivation factors considered to be the most important for tourism enterprises by their employees. Research tasks: 1. To examine the factors influencing motivation; 2. To perform an analysis of the factors promoting and hindering the motivation of employees by employing the methods of survey and benchmarking. The research found that employees working for tourism enterprises were mostly motivated by a decent wage, an interesting job and career growth opportunities at the enterprises; the employees considered the feeling of job security and good work conditions to be also important. An employee of an enterprise engaged in the hotel industry of Latvia was mostly motivated by good work conditions, the feeling of job security and an opportunity to be involved and informed, while relations with the management and a decent wage were also considered to be important.