Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to investigate how career advancement affects the likelihood of
turnover among Executive & Senior Executive (Level 1) employees at XYZ Apparel Ltd in Sri
Lanka. As such the primary research objective has been set as; to evaluate how factors related to
career growth within the organization affect the intention of turnover among level 01 employees
(Executive and Senior Executive) at XYZ Apparel Ltd whereas another four primary objectives
have been set to understand the impact of each independent variable (career goal progression,
professional ability development, promotion speed and remuneration growth) on employee
turnover intention. Hereby, the study used four factors - career goal progress, professional ability
development, promotion speed, and remuneration growth - based on the conceptualization of
organizational career growth by Weng et al. (2012). Data was collected from 169 voluntary
participants who were Level 1 employees at XYZ Apparel Ltd. The study found that all four
dimensions of organizational career growth namely, career goal progression, professional ability
development, promotion speed and remuneration growth, were negatively related to turnover
intention. Furthermore, it was observed that career goal progression, professional ability
development, and remuneration growth had a very strong relationship with employee turnover
intention. According to the regression analysis it was revealed that, 77.6% of the variance in
employee turnover intention can be explained by independent variables.
