DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING DETERMINANTS OF TURNOVER INTENTION IN MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATIONS

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Development of instrument Validity of instrument Employee turnover intention Employee turnover determinants Manufacturing organizations

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TAYYABA RAFIQUE MAKHDOOM, DODO KHAN ALIAS KHALID MALOKANI, TAHAL KUMAR, GHULAM MURTAZA LAHBAR, ALI RAZA ZAIDI, SHAH PISAND CHANDIO

Abstract

Purpose

This study is an attempt to test the validity of an instrument developed for analyzing the turnover determinants typical for manufacturing organizations, which will help in tracing out the employees’ intention to leave an organization.


Design/methodology

The study encompasses two techniques for data collection. Interviews were conducted at the start to determine employee turnover determinants as a pilot study. After working on the literature and analyzing the responses to interviews, themes emerged. A closed-ended questionnaire was developed, and a survey was conducted with the use of questionnaires.


Findings

The instrument was validated with all its items in Exploratory Factor Analysis. Good construct validity: convergent and discriminant validity was found after applying Confirmatory Factor Analysis by reduction of two items from the instruments.


Practical implications

The instruments will help researchers in empirical studies while measuring causes/determinants of employee turnover, particularly in manufacturing organizations.


Originality/value

Various instruments and scales are also used for measuring turnover. This study targeted the measurement of employee turnover intention of non-executive workers of the manufacturing organization. Since non-executive employees don’t have a better understanding of the English language, the available scales are in the English language. Therefore, employees of a country having Urdu or any similar language, e.g., Hindi, need a scale for their turnover intention measurement.

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Vol. 11 No. 12s (2023)
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TAYYABA RAFIQUE MAKHDOOM, DODO KHAN ALIAS KHALID MALOKANI, TAHAL KUMAR, GHULAM MURTAZA LAHBAR, ALI RAZA ZAIDI, SHAH PISAND CHANDIO

  1. TAYYABA RAFIQUE MAKHDOOM1, DODO KHAN ALIAS KHALID MALOKANI2, DR. TAHAL KUMAR3, DR. GHULAM MURTAZA LAHBAR4, ALI RAZA ZAIDI5, SHAH PISAND CHANDIO6

1Business Administration Department, Government College University Hyderabad, Pakistan

2Business Administration Department, Government College University Hyderabad, Pakistan

3Department of Business Administration, Sindh University Laar Campus Badin, Sindh, Pakistan

4Benazir school of Business, Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari

5Business Administration Department, Government College University Hyderabad, Pakistan

6PhD Scholar, Department of Statistics, University of Sindh Jamshoro, Sindh, Pakistan

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