The Impact of Dispositional Traits and Job Satisfaction on Employee Turnover Intentions.

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Dr. Niamatullah Shah ,

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Volume 3 - December 2014 (12)

Abstract

Individuals are the most important factor in the organization on which employers and managers rely to face the complex issues and make critical decisions. Accordingly, organizations invest a lot on hiring, training and for furnishing their employees with skills and expertise, to use all of them for their own benefits. However, when employees leave the organizations, hurt their interest and all the investment goes to waste. This research study investigated the relationships between dispositional traits and job satisfaction to employee turnover intention. By applying Multiple Regression Analysis on 134 sample of private banking sector, this study concluded that positive affectivity and job satisfaction has negatively significant relationship with turnover intention. However, negative affectivity has now relationship with turnover intention. This research may contribute to the literature of organizational and individual development. Furthermore it may help human resource experts to understand turnover intentions more precisely then before and assist in making new human resource policies and strategies

Keywords

 turnover intention, dispositional traits, positive affectivity, negative affectivity, job, job satisfaction.

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