Factors Affecting the Decision on the Free Flow of Skilled Labour in the Asean Economic Community (AEC) of Hotels’ Staff in Pattaya City Chonburi

Abstract

This study aimed at identifying the factors for free flow of skilled labour in the ASEAN economic communities (AEC) as classified in accordance with the personal factors, as well as those affecting the trend for the decisions to move to work in the ASEAN economic communities. It also aimed to identify the factors of the free flow of skilled labour in the ASEAN economic communities yielding an impact on the decisions to move to work in the ASEAN economic communities of staff working in hotel businesses of Pattaya City. The samples were 400 three-star hotels staff working in 23 positions at the 4 departments, according to the MRA Hotel Business Major Agreement, in Pattaya City, Chonburi province. The quota sampling was adopted for the study, whereby 2 staff were selected from each department of each hotel. In addition, questionnaires were used for the data collections, whereas frequency, percentage, average score, standard deviation, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance), and The Logistic Regression Analysis were the statistics used for analyzing the data.  The findings revealed that, as a whole, the staff with different salary rate and marital status had different factors for the free flow of skilled labour in the ASEAN economic communities. Also, the hotel work experience, the marital status and the department they worked in according to the MRA yielded an impact on their decisions to move to work in the ASEAN economic communities.  Likewise, the factors regarding their perceptions for the travelling procedures to work in the ASEAN economic communities also had an impact on their decisions to move to work in the ASEAN economic communities.