The Effect of Work Compensation on Intention to Stay in the Hotel Industry During the COVID 19 Pandemic with Job Embeddedness as Mediation

This study aimed to analyze the effect of work compensation on intention to stay in the hotel industry during the COVID 19 pandemic with job embeddedness as mediation. This research was conducted with a quantitative approach. The total population was 670 hotel management graduates with the sample's determination based on the type of purposive sampling. The sample size of the study is estimated at 30% of the total population (201 graduates) who are estimated to work in the hotel industry. A total of 145 respondents were successfully collected. The data analysis technique used is Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The results showed that: (1) There is a significant effect of work compensation toward hotel management graduates’ intention to stay in the hotel industry during the COVID 19 pandemic. (2) There is a significant effect of work compensation toward hotel management graduates' job embeddedness in the hotel industry during the COVID 19 pandemic. (3) There is a significant effect of job embeddedness toward hotel management graduates’ intention to stay in the hotel industry during the COVID 19 pandemic and (4) There is a significant mediating effect of job embeddedness toward the relationship between work compensation and hotel management graduates’ intention to stay in the hotel industry during COVID 19 pandemic. What could be said from the result of the study is that the strength of the relationship between work compensation and hotel management graduates' intention to stay in the hotel industry would be increased with the presence of job embeddedness