The Influence of Job Satisfaction on Employee Turnover Intention in the Manufacturing Industry of Malaysia

Collin Lye Chin

Faculty of Business, Raffles University Iskandar

Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Email: collinlye@gmail.com

 

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to study the influence of job satisfaction and employee turnover intention among manufacturing industry in Malaysia. The research objectives are divided into two which includes to examine the relationship between the factors of job satisfaction and employee turnover intention, which factor of job satisfaction contribute most to employee turnover intention. Basically, this research is an inferential research design, descriptive research design and correlation research design. The respondents are those managerial level of employees that working at manufacturing industry in Malaysia which have been chosen to participate in this survey. Then, the collected data was analyse by adopting mean scores, Pearson’s r correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The findings showed that there is a negative relationship between career development, supervision and employee turnover intention. The results also indicated that the overall levels of job satisfaction is high and career development is the factor that contribute most to employee turnover intention.

 

Key word: job satisfaction, employee turnover intention;, nature of work, career development, supervision, salary

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