Wednesday, March 4, 2009

5 Reasons Bahrainis Don’t Like Hotel Jobs

I made small research and interviews on the reason why most Bahrainis are not interested in hotel jobs. I found at least two factors; socio-culture and socio-economy and here I will share with you why they don't want to take up jobs in hospitality industry from social perspective. Next post, we will discuss factors from social economy perspective. Enjoy…

Religion is the main factor influences Bahrainis in making decision to choose type of job. Since Bahrainis are doctrinised by Islam values, most parents do not suggest their children to work in hotel. They do not prefer their generation to be involved in travel related projects, because based on their thought that, the participation in hotel and hospitality industry, means against values in their religion. The rest of considerations have lots of to do with the way of life.

Culture is the similar, where it is one of the reasons for Bahrainis to avoid hotel job. As one of GCC countries, where Arab tradition and customs are dominant, majority of Bahraini simply think that tourism and hospitality industry is a kind of modernisation brought by the west. Tourism comes as a new phenomenon that contains several modern values and is associated to be contradictive over Arab conservative tradition. Those conservative families will definitely suggest their generation to elude working in hotel industry.

Education, skills and competencies are some of major reasons. The current Bahraini’s education system does not focus on providing suitable skills relevant to the job market. The government of Bahrain acknowledge the fact that there is an actual gap between the educational system output and the jobs available. For example, students, as a trend, are showing interest in oil company job, banking or IT, when there is a severe dearth for hotel professionals. This means that the large number of graduate students do not have jobs available when they are graduated.

The ministry of labour data shows that 69 percent of job seekers are secondary graduates or high school dropouts. They do not possess the skill and knowledge required to compete in the job market. In fact, they do not even meet the basic essential work skills. To be an hotelier, an employee must have basic skills and knowledge on hotel operations and management.

Attitude is one of the main reasons why are Bahrainis not employed in lodging industry. The basic requirement to work in the industry is the attitude of “pride to serve”. Tourism or hotel job is service industry where the backbone, as well as nature of the job is “to serve somebody else”. Only a worker who has proper attitude to serve people, will adapt to the job and can maintain longer employment. Moreover, the existing employment system does not encourage Bahrainis commitment to their jobs. They don’t simply commit to the job.

Work ethic is considerably related to the eagerness and level of enthusiasm. Are Bahrainis lazy? Bahrain’s Minister of Labour, Dr. Majeed al-Alawi, described Bahraini and most GCC nationals as “lazy” and “spoilt”, relying on imported labour for the simplest tasks.

Despite Bahrain government schemes to reduce expatriate and get more locals into work, the hard truth is that too many Bahrainis don’t want real job. “The simple truth is there are no t enough Bahraini nationals looking for work who have the quota expectations of the government”. Compared with expatriates, most locals will not work long hours, then it causes many employers have to hire at least two Bahrainis to replace each expatriate.

Anyone can add other reasons?

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

PERTAMAXXX yah..?

Anonymous said...

hmmm..
*setelah berpayah2 baca & mengartikan sepotong2 krn yg tau artinya cuma sedikit kata.. hiksss nyesel juga nih, males blajar bhs inggris*

dg demikian Iqbal & org endonesya bisa kerja disana tanpa persaingan dg penduduk lokal dong..
bukankah itu menguntungkan?
coba kl semua minat kerja di hotel, belum tentu Iqbal nyampe ke Bahrain kan.. heheee
belum tentu BUKAN berarti tidak mungkin lho..

Anonymous said...

makasih ya, udah nanya..
itu bukan postingan saya Iqbal, saya udah ga pakai blog itu lg & belum punya blog baru..

teman saya manfaatkan PR blog saya utk cari $ soalnya lumayan drpd blog saya nganggur mubajir, mending diduitin katanya..

udah bnyk yg nanyain kapan nge blog lg.. tp saya belum mood
nanti kl udah ada pst sy kabari..

*klik aja nama saya yg ini.. ky nya Iqbal blm lihat gambar2 di postingan ini deh*

TRY! nothing too loose.. trust me!
*eh, bener ga tuh nulis nya.. hihi*

trancepass said...

@nope,

tahnks for passing b and dropping a message. Yah, mungkin karena dikit orang lokal yang tertarik kerja di hotel, maka saya bisa jadi imigrant disini, hehehe...

oh, ya ditunggu blognya yg baru, tapi kalo boleh tahu, kenapa kok sampe gak dilanjutin itu blog yang dah canggih banget..

Anonymous said...

koq nanya.. bukan nya udah tau..?

urusan kasus hujatan & fitnahan itu yg bikin saya hilang mood & mikir lg..
ternyata nge blog ga hanya bikin banyak teman, tp juga bisa banyak fitnah..

sampe skrg saya ga ngerti, knp saya yg dipilih utk terima paket penistaan itu..
apes bener..

Anonymous said...

waduh.. saya aja baru tau alesan2nya.. gimana mau nambahin :D

www.katobengke.com said...

mas jangan marah yah and jangan tersinggung so benar..aq kagak paham bahasa inggris...
ntar kalau dah ada post abhasa indo tolong kabari aq yah...

trancepass said...

@Nopee,

Ya, aku baca itu posting sampe dua kali. aku masih heran, apa untungnya seorang blogger melakukan penistaan dan pengfitnahan... padahal blogging itu kan bertujuan baik.. Yah, semoga Tuhan memaafkan pelakunya sekaligus memberikan pencerahan agar dia tidak malakukannya lagi.

For Novee, I know you'll be back with new and fresh ideas on your new blog...update me then..

Anonymous said...

barangkali bisnis ini dianggap kurang menjanjikan oleh masyarakat setempat?
btw, bahrain bagus gak sih? pingin jg maen ke sana kalo oke :P
pingin doank,,padahal duit jg gak punya :D

Anonymous said...

jadi itu alesannya kenapa pekerjan hotel di sana kebanyakan malah exspatriat?

trancepass said...

@wennyaulia,
Bahrain gak begitu bagus kalo bicara mengenai keindahan alam. Tapi bagus buat bisnis dan investasi. I think so...

@Chick,
Yup, those are some reasons. I will explain others on the next post.