Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover Intention: A Case Study of Private Hospital in Erbil
Keywords:
Job Satisfaction, Private Hospital, TurnoverAbstract
Today it became a huge challenge for Human Resource Managers to retain the employees for longer time of period and decrease the rate of employee turnover. The main research objective is to find out the correlation between job satisfaction and employee turnover intention in private hospital in Erbil. A quantitative method was used to analyze the current study. 144 participants were involved in this study from private hospital in Erbil. The correlation between job satisfaction factor as independent factor and turnover as dependent factor, the value of R for the Job satisfaction is =.386** which indicates that turnover is a positive and weak correlation with turnover intention. The coefficients analysis for this study, the value Beta for turnover is = .386> 0.01, which supported the research hypothesis. This study showed that the there is a positive correlation between job satisfaction and employee turnover. Finally, on the turnover intentions of private hospital personnel in Erbil, most of them would quit in case if they have a better opportunities.
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