Job Satisfaction and How It Affects Job Turnover

This article explores the impact of job satisfaction on job turnover and the relationship between the two. It defines job satisfaction and job turnover, reviews literature on the topic, and synthesizes the findings. The critical review emphasizes the need for companies to improve job satisfaction to reduce employee turnover.

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Job Satisfaction as well as How It Influence Job Turnover
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1. Introduction
The impacts of job pleasure on workers turnover are fundamental component towards the
success of different organizations that operate in the global business community. Job satisfaction
within a company can be achieved through several methods that are different in nature
(Wickramasinghe, 2010). The major effects of job satisfaction on job turnover is essential to the
society as it targets to find out different approaches that are essential in motivating employees to
stay within an organization for long duration. Cases of job satisfaction help in reducing cases of
resigning of employees to seek employment in different organizations. Therefore, the reason for
this investigative paper is to investigate the connection between work fulfillment and the worker
turnover.
2. Content of Literature Review
(a). Definition
Job pleasure
Job pleasure refers to how satisfied a person becomes in regard to their assigned job. It is
the pleasurable enthusiastic state from the evaluation of an individual occupation as
accomplishing or encouraging the achievement of value of job by an individual (Poon, 2004).
Job pleasure among employee in the operations shave become the driving force of different
operations of organizations around the global marketplaces.
Job turnover
Intentions of turnover remain to be an individual’s behavioral attitude to leave their place
of work voluntarily. It is the choice made by most workers to terminate their commitment to

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working with a given organization without being fired by the management or receiving any
interdiction notice. Cases of turnover within operations of organizations remain to be an exercise
that makes operations to be company as they seek to recruit and employee new workers for
replacement.
(b). Job Turnover in General Research
There are several factors that lead to cases of job turnover that are more than the negative
relationship with people in an organization and payment among other factors (Manish et al.,
2008). Therefore, job turnover in most cases has persisted to be a significant concern in
operations of most companies. There are several reasons why employee turnover remains to
increase among activities of different business organizations. Some of these reasons comprise of
increase charges of services, the decline in rates of production, reduction in the amount of
revenue that a company earns, and poor management among other reasons (Chen et al., 2004).
However, job satisfaction has the most significant impact on employee turnover in most
companies around the global business community.
(c). Job Turnover (dependent Variable) in specific area of study
Job turnover on operations of business corporations have been emphasized mainly in
different research work since it has huge effects on job performance, firm performance, along
with improved customer’s perception of high service leading to reduced cases of job turnover
(Tian-Foreman, 2009). Job turnover in human resource has the critical influence on performance
among employees as more top cases of satisfaction tends to mitigate intention of the employee
willing to leave work voluntarily.

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3. Relationship of Job turnover (Dependent Variable) and job pleasure (Independent
Variable)
(a). In general
The present global competition in the marketplace, changing needs of targeted as well as
esteem clients, the impact of technological advancements, along with globalization in the
changing business settings, employment turnover with job satisfaction continue to be vital in
operations of businesses. Lee et al., (2016) defined the job satisfaction as an extent to which an
individual presents happiness with his job and devotes enthusiastically to carry out optimum
level for the associated responsibility. For this, there should be work engagement and turnover
intention between the management and employees to improve the job satisfaction. The
supervisors should have lower turnover intention and higher work engagement with their
subordinates. Every commitment of employee in the operation shave becomes the driving force
of different organizations in international markets. Advantages of job satisfaction on operations
of business corporations have been emphasized mainly in different research work since it has the
positive effect on job performance, firm performance, along with improved customer’s
perception of high service leading to reduced cases of job turnover. According to Tian-Foreman
(2009), job satisfaction in human resource has the critical influence on job turnover among
employees as more top cases of satisfaction tends to mitigate intention of the employee willing to
leave work voluntarily. Therefore, commitment of employees to operations remains to reduce
cases of turnover since it forms the general expression that improves positive attitudes of the
structure of employees towards their actions.
(b). In a Specific area of study

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Maintaining proper interrelation among several stakeholders stays to be the critical aspect
that determines the performance of the organization. As illustrated by Lee & Li (2017), most
investigations have reported that employee commitments are the mediating factor that exists
between organizational practices along with job satisfaction in delivering necessary services to
customers. There are several effects of job satisfaction on job satisfaction around operations of
different business organizations. Huang et al., (2017), stated that job satisfaction has the huge
impact on the reduction of cases of employee turnover since it ensures that only the right
employees are recruited as well as retained in the operations of an organization. The positive
impact of job satisfaction on the productivity of employees tends to justify the time and expenses
involved with the creation of a pleasant working place that helps in reducing cases of job
turnover among workers. Different factors that come with job satisfaction like reduced costs of
operations increased production rates, and increased business profits decrease cases of job
turnover among employees.
4. Synthesis of the Literature Review
Job satisfaction enhances the accountability of employees when they are recruited to
support operations of a given business organization. The idea of making employees responsible
makes them be able to feel satisfied with their job. Accordance to presentation by Poon (2004),
relationships about employee turnover with job satisfaction with their jobs in different
organizations have been the subject of a significant amount of empirical study, and still, there
seems little agreement concerning the unexpected connections amid these two vital attitudes of
employees. The need to understand such attitudes remains to be significant merely because they
have the essential influence on the performance of the organization (Cheng et al., 2004). Hence,
most employees feel more empowered when they are responsible for different operations. The

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idea of being responsible enables most employees to explore more empowered to affect the
manner that they operate to attain the companies set objectives and mission in every business
setting.
The improvement of employee’s commitments by ensuring that all their needs are met
while they engage their energies to achieve companies objectives help in reducing cases of
turnover. According to Huang & Su (2016), job loyalty helps in providing that there is a mental
state along with illustrated associations of workers with the organization for which they operate.
Job loyalty increases the satisfaction of employees by influencing decisions of employees to
remain with the organization for the long duration. Tian-Foreman (2009) reported that employee
satisfaction positively correlated with the loyalty of workers to their organizations. Therefore,
there exist constructive associations amid jobs satisfactions along with allegiance of employees
that make them remain on working in a given organization for the extended period.
According to study by Ramalho et al., (2018), creations of ideal practices that focus on
supervisory backing affect intentions of employee’s turnover in different ways. Companies that
have supervisors that encourage workers to attain company objective remain to be effective in
ensuring that every issue that affects operations of workers are addressed in an ideal approach.
Lee & Li (2017) indicated that companies that forms physical along with psychological
encouragement given by the employer who values the contribution of workers help in promoting
their development. Organizations, where supervisors are not involved in an evaluation of
employee’s performance, tend to remain to have declined in job satisfaction among employees
and most employees always opt to resign or leave work without notice of the company managers.
5. Critical Review

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It is evident that job satisfaction has huge impact on cases of employees’ turnover while
they operate in different business corporations around the global community. Therefore, various
companies need to concentrate on improving their operations to make employees satisfies with
their jobs for them to concentrate on performing their duties without considering to resign from
their operations. From the discussion, it is clear that job turnover primarily relies on the
capacities of different management of companies in human resource departments to improve
their job satisfaction among employees. Therefore, it is necessary for most companies to improve
their operations on reinforcing the right behavior, engaging workers on the process of making
decisions and developing supervisory support team to enhance job satisfaction among employees
that in turn make employees stay in a given company without considering resigning from their
operations.

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