Factors Influencing Employee’s Turnover and Their Effects in the Malaysian Private Sector
Keywords:
Employee Turnover, Carrier Promotion, Price, Personality, Job Match Private Sector.
Abstract
The word “employee turnover is a crucial metric that is frequently integral to organizations’ personnel arranging and policy. The main rationale of this study is to discover out the legitimate reasons behind employees turnover and its consequences on the productivity of Malaysian manufacturing industries. Based on the indication of the coefficient shows that, the inverse relationship between the turnover intension, carrier promotion, price, personality and job match. On the off chance that the satisfaction level of utilizes in regards to their occupation is elevated, the turnover aim will be stumpy. More over if the level of carrier promotion, price, personality and job match is low; the widrawal intension will be higher. The paper recommend that management ought to utilize both sorts of compensation (Financial and non-Financial), appealing package, convince allowance, group insurance, medical allowance, benevolent fund, house rent, gratuity, and pension in financial remuneration and also match a job with the person caring out the job. The limitations of the study is that respondents are selected only faculty members of private business institutions on convenience premise, speculation for the entire populace is not flawlessly fulfilled although random sampling is applied.
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Idson, T.L. and D.J. Feaster, 1990. A selectivity model of employer-size wage differentials. J. Labor Econ.,8: 99-122.
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Jackofsky, E. F., & Peters, L. H. 1983. Job turnover versus company turnover: Reassessment of the March and Simon participation hypothesis. Journal of Applied Psychology, 68: 490– 495.
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O’Reilly, C.A., J. Chatman and D.F. Caldwell, 1991.People and organizational culture. A profile comparison approach to assessing person organization fir. Academy of Management Journal, 34: 487-516.
Peterson, S. L. 2004. Toward a theoretical model of employee turnover: A human resource development perspective. Human Resource Development Review, 3(3): 209–227.
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Wong, C.-S., Hui, C., & Law, K. S. 1995. Causal relationship between attitudinal antecedents to turnover. Academy of Management Journal, 342–346.
Weisberg, J. and A. Kirschenbaum, 2002. Gender and turnover: A re-examination of the impact of sex on intent and actual job changes. Human Relations, 46(8): 487-1006.
Weiss, H. M., & Cropanzano, R. (1996). Affective events theory: A theoretical discussion of the structure, causes and consequences of affective experiences at work.
Wozniak, L. 2003. Companies in China struggle to train, retain qualified managers. Wall Street Journal, December 30, A8. Intermediate linkages in the relationship between job satisfaction and employee turnover. Journal of Applied Psychology, 62: 237–240.
Yankeelov, P.A., A.P. Barbee, D. Sullivan and B.F. Antle, 2008. Individual and organizational factors Job retention in Kentucky’s Child welfare agency, Children and Youth Review, 31(5): 547-554.
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2018-01-29
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Saidu, N. (2018). Factors Influencing Employee’s Turnover and Their Effects in the Malaysian Private Sector. International Journal of Business and Management Future, 2(1), 30-37. https://doi.org/10.46281/ijbmf.v2i1.117
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