Abstract:
In today’s dynamic world human resource management has become a significant
management function that companies have to consider utilizing their workforce efficiently
and effectively to achieve their goals and objectives. This study explores the relationship
between job satisfaction, training satisfaction, and employee retention intentions within the
leading apparel industries located in Sri Lanka's Katunayake Export Processing Zone. The
study attempts to find answers to the problem of how job satisfaction mediates the relationship
between training satisfaction & employee intention to retention in executive-level employees
in the apparel industry of Sri Lanka which was captured as a research gap by studying the
existing literature in the arena. The research follows a positivistic philosophy followed by a
deductive approach along with a quantitative research method. This was cross-sectional
research that gathered data through a survey conducted with a sample of 291 executive-level
employees selected based on a stratified convenient sampling method. Correlation analysis,
Regression analysis, and Sobel test were used in analyzing data to test the hypotheses. In
conclusion, the study's key findings reveal that training satisfaction influences the intention to
retain employees, impacts job satisfaction, and job satisfaction affects the intention to retain
employees. Furthermore, job satisfaction mediates the relationship between training
satisfaction and the intention to retain executive-level employees in Sri Lanka's leading
apparel industries.
