The Effects of Job Satisfaction on Employees’ Turnover Intention in Addis Ababa Housing Construction Project Office
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of the study is to examine effect of job satisfaction on employee turnover intention in Addis Ababa Housing Development Project Office. The study hypothesized that there are significant negative relationships for the four factors of job satisfaction which is pay and benefit, career development, work environment and distributive justice in the turnover intention of the professional employees’ at AAHDPO. Employee turnover intention has a major problem in construction sector because of work load and stress. Addis Ababa Housing Development Project Office is one of those construction projects run by government that suffer high rate of employee turnover intention. From the total of 2284professional and semiprofessional personnel, 340 permanent employees were selected through stratified random sampling from five locations/clusters. To collect primary data structured questionnaires’ were distributed to 340, out of which 315 (92.6%) usable questionnaires were collected. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 20. The tests involved were ANOVA, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regressions. The results show job satisfaction factors such as pay and benefit, career development, work environment, and distributive justice and turnover intention have significantly negative relationship.
These findings show that the related factors should have given attention to retain employees in the organization. Some suggestions have been recommended for the organization and for future research to be more complete and comprehensive.
Key words: turnover intention, jab satisfaction, pay and benefit, work environment, distributive justice
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turnover intention, jab satisfaction, pay and benefit, work environment, distributive