Laos is one of the countries where the numbers of foreign direct
investment increase every year. As recently, the trend to motivate the employee
that has a different background in the organization is one of the most significant
tasks for the employer, because the overseas worker in the mining companies
plays the vital role to develop the local staff in the various fields.
The objective of this paper is to explore the motivations and the challenges
of the overseas Indonesian workers in the mining companies in Laos. The study
uses a qualitative research methodology for the analysis. Data was collected by
interviewing ten (10) overseas Indonesian workers among the different mining
companies in Laos.
This research has undertaken some main themes that describe the
perception of the overseas Indonesian workers in the mining companies in Laos
about their motivations and the challenges in their work. The factors that
motivated the overseas Indonesian workers to work in the mining company in
Laos has appeared into four factors as financial rewards, career opportunity and
development, friendly working environment, and Similarity. Besides that, the
challenge factors faced by Indonesian workers, such as the language barrier and religion practice.