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

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 insi...

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Main Authors: Zainuddin, Nizamuddin, Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi, Johari, Husna
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Online Access:http://repo.uum.edu.my/9957/1/I13.pdf
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spelling my.uum.repo.99572016-04-19T04:17:18Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/9957/ Turnover intention among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia: Job characteristics perspective Zainuddin, Nizamuddin Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi Johari, Husna HD28 Management. Industrial Management 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. 2013-12-21 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/9957/1/I13.pdf Zainuddin, Nizamuddin and Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi and Johari, Husna (2013) Turnover intention among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia: Job characteristics perspective. In: 4th International Conference on Education and Information Management, 21 ~ 22 December 2013, Penang, Malaysia. http://www.ifrnd.org/ConferenceDetail.aspx?ConferencelID=27
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic HD28 Management. Industrial Management
spellingShingle HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Zainuddin, Nizamuddin
Mad Nor, Nik Norsyamimi
Johari, Husna
Turnover intention among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia: Job characteristics perspective
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.
format Conference or Workshop Item
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 among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia: Job characteristics perspective
title_short Turnover intention among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia: Job characteristics perspective
title_full Turnover intention among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia: Job characteristics perspective
title_fullStr Turnover intention among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia: Job characteristics perspective
title_full_unstemmed Turnover intention among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in Malaysia: Job characteristics perspective
title_sort turnover intention among electrical and electronics sub-sector employees in malaysia: job characteristics perspective
publishDate 2013
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/9957/1/I13.pdf
http://repo.uum.edu.my/9957/
http://www.ifrnd.org/ConferenceDetail.aspx?ConferencelID=27
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