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Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia

Job turnover is traditionally faced by organizations in many industries.Implications such as resources wastage and low productivity can be derived from turnover issue.Turnover intention was found to be a reliable predictor for actual turnover in previous studies.Consequently, this demands some ins...

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Main Authors: Zainuddin, Nizamuddin, Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi, Johari, Husna
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Language:English
Published: UUM College of Business 2015
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
TS Manufactures
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/17822/1/JTOM%2010%202%20106-119.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.178222016-04-14T02:15:09Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/17822/ Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia Zainuddin, Nizamuddin Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi Johari, Husna HD28 Management. Industrial Management TS Manufactures Job turnover is traditionally faced by organizations in many industries.Implications such as resources wastage and low productivity can be derived from turnover issue.Turnover intention was found to be a reliable predictor for actual turnover in previous studies.Consequently, this demands some insights on turnover intention issue especially within Malaysian context.This paper will focus on determining the relationship of job characteristics on turnover intention among manufacturing operators particularly in Electrical and Electronics sub-sector.The study was conducted amongst the operators of manufacturing industry in Peninsular Malaysia (N=800).Considering that Malaysia manufacturing industry has shown a strong economic growth through large investment in economic activities, it is important for all manufacturing companies to retain talented employees and reduce turnover problem in order to be more productive and competitive. The findings had accepted the research hypothesis. Dimensions of job characteristics (i.e. skill variety, task identity and feedback) had significantly correlated and contributed to the turnover intention.The findings had contributed to the theoretical significance through the examination of direct relationships between job characteristics on turnover intention among local operators in manufacturing sector based on the high turnover rate in Malaysia manufacturing sector between the years 2008 until early of 2011. UUM College of Business 2015 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/17822/1/JTOM%2010%202%20106-119.pdf Zainuddin, Nizamuddin and Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi and Johari, Husna (2015) Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia. Journal of Technology and Operations Management, 10 (2). pp. 106-119. ISSN 1823-514X http://jtom.stmlportal.net/uncategorized/volume-10-number-2-december-2015/
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
TS Manufactures
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
TS Manufactures
Zainuddin, Nizamuddin
Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi
Johari, Husna
Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia
description Job turnover is traditionally faced by organizations in many industries.Implications such as resources wastage and low productivity can be derived from turnover issue.Turnover intention was found to be a reliable predictor for actual turnover in previous studies.Consequently, this demands some insights on turnover intention issue especially within Malaysian context.This paper will focus on determining the relationship of job characteristics on turnover intention among manufacturing operators particularly in Electrical and Electronics sub-sector.The study was conducted amongst the operators of manufacturing industry in Peninsular Malaysia (N=800).Considering that Malaysia manufacturing industry has shown a strong economic growth through large investment in economic activities, it is important for all manufacturing companies to retain talented employees and reduce turnover problem in order to be more productive and competitive. The findings had accepted the research hypothesis. Dimensions of job characteristics (i.e. skill variety, task identity and feedback) had significantly correlated and contributed to the turnover intention.The findings had contributed to the theoretical significance through the examination of direct relationships between job characteristics on turnover intention among local operators in manufacturing sector based on the high turnover rate in Malaysia manufacturing sector between the years 2008 until early of 2011.
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author Zainuddin, Nizamuddin
Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi
Johari, Husna
author_facet Zainuddin, Nizamuddin
Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi
Johari, Husna
author_sort Zainuddin, Nizamuddin
title Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia
title_short Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia
title_full Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia
title_fullStr Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Turnover intention (Job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia
title_sort turnover intention (job characteristics perspective) among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in malaysia
publisher UUM College of Business
publishDate 2015
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/17822/1/JTOM%2010%202%20106-119.pdf
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