Intention to Leave Among Private Sectors Workers in Malaysia

ABSTRACT

The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between job satisfactions with turnover intentions. Apart of that this study was done to look at how demographic variables and job satisfaction characteristics could influence employee’s decision to quit a job or to find a better job at other place within private sector in Malaysia. The questionnaire was distributed to 60 respondents working in various private organizations in Klang Valley and 50 has managed to fill up and return the questionnaire survey. The responses from the sample are used to test the hypothesis that job satisfaction has negative and significant relationship with intention to leave. The result indicates that all of the job satisfaction components are negatively and significantly correlated to employee’s intention to leave the organization. The result obtained in this study showed that job satisfaction (particularly satisfaction with job challenge, supervision, colleague, income, and promotion) is an important controllable determinant of employees’ intention to leave the organization. As per the ANOVA test run results, we can say that age and number of years an employee had been working with a particular organization are significant to intention to leave. In other words age and intention to leave has strong relationship with each other. So as the number of years an employee has been serving the organization

Table of Contents

1.0 Introduction 4
1.1 Background of the Study 4
1.2 Problem Statement 5
1.3 Research Questions 6
1.4 Research Objectives 6
1.5 Significance of Study 7
1.6 Definition of Terms 7
1.6.1 Job Satisfaction 7
1.6.2 Intention to Leave 8
2.0 Literature Review 9
2.1 Turnover Intention 9
2.1.1 Relationship between job satisfaction with intention to leave 9 2.1.2 Relationship between demographic factor with intention to leave 11
3.0 Introduction 13
3.1 Research Framework and Hypotheses 13
3.2 Hypothesis Statement 13
3.3 Research Design 14

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