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Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry

It is evident that job stressors significantly affect employee’s level of job satisfaction, commitment, and retention behavior. However, little has been known about such behavioral aspects from the oil and gas industry’s perspective. Therefore, this study aims to examine the relationship between job...

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Main Authors: Quoquab, Farzana, Mahadi, Nomahaza, Jamshidian, Atefeh, Abdul Rasid, Siti Zaleha
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Published: American Scientific Publishers 2015
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58459/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.6179
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spelling my.utm.584592017-09-18T01:33:27Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58459/ Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry Quoquab, Farzana Mahadi, Nomahaza Jamshidian, Atefeh Abdul Rasid, Siti Zaleha T Technology (General) It is evident that job stressors significantly affect employee’s level of job satisfaction, commitment, and retention behavior. However, little has been known about such behavioral aspects from the oil and gas industry’s perspective. Therefore, this study aims to examine the relationship between job stressors, burnout, job satisfaction, and turnover intention in the context of the Malaysian oil and gas industry. It is hypothesized that time pressure and workload positively affect burnout, whereas, burnout negatively affects job satisfaction and consequently job satisfaction negatively affects turnover intention. Data were collected by administering survey questionnaires among five Oil and Gas companies located in Kuala Lumpur area. 117 questionnaires were returned among which 107 were usable to for subsequent analysis. Data were analyzed by using SPSS version 20. Results reveal that time pressure and workload positively affect burnout, whereas, burnout negatively affect job satisfaction. Data also supports the negative relationship between job satisfaction employee’s turnover intention. Findings of this study suggest that human resource manager should be careful about workplace job stressors in order to retain their employees. The present study provides useful knowledge to the human resource managers in motivating and managing their employees in better way American Scientific Publishers 2015-06 Article PeerReviewed Quoquab, Farzana and Mahadi, Nomahaza and Jamshidian, Atefeh and Abdul Rasid, Siti Zaleha (2015) Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry. Advanced Science Letters, 21 (6). pp. 1746-1749. ISSN 1936-6612 http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.6179 DOI:10.1166/asl.2015.6179
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topic T Technology (General)
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Quoquab, Farzana
Mahadi, Nomahaza
Jamshidian, Atefeh
Abdul Rasid, Siti Zaleha
Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry
description It is evident that job stressors significantly affect employee’s level of job satisfaction, commitment, and retention behavior. However, little has been known about such behavioral aspects from the oil and gas industry’s perspective. Therefore, this study aims to examine the relationship between job stressors, burnout, job satisfaction, and turnover intention in the context of the Malaysian oil and gas industry. It is hypothesized that time pressure and workload positively affect burnout, whereas, burnout negatively affects job satisfaction and consequently job satisfaction negatively affects turnover intention. Data were collected by administering survey questionnaires among five Oil and Gas companies located in Kuala Lumpur area. 117 questionnaires were returned among which 107 were usable to for subsequent analysis. Data were analyzed by using SPSS version 20. Results reveal that time pressure and workload positively affect burnout, whereas, burnout negatively affect job satisfaction. Data also supports the negative relationship between job satisfaction employee’s turnover intention. Findings of this study suggest that human resource manager should be careful about workplace job stressors in order to retain their employees. The present study provides useful knowledge to the human resource managers in motivating and managing their employees in better way
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author Quoquab, Farzana
Mahadi, Nomahaza
Jamshidian, Atefeh
Abdul Rasid, Siti Zaleha
author_facet Quoquab, Farzana
Mahadi, Nomahaza
Jamshidian, Atefeh
Abdul Rasid, Siti Zaleha
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title Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry
title_short Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry
title_full Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry
title_fullStr Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry
title_full_unstemmed Job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from Malaysian oil and gas industry
title_sort job stressors and employee turnover intention: lessons learned from malaysian oil and gas industry
publisher American Scientific Publishers
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/58459/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/asl.2015.6179
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