Abstract:
The apparel industry is one of the main sectors of the Sri Lankan
economy. This industry inherently relates with high rate of labor turnover.
The objective of this study was to see whether there is a significant
relationship between job stress and turnover intention of machine
operators. In addition to that inspect whether what are the significant
stressors which are influence to arise machine operators’ job stress. The
independent variable was the job stress and the dependent variable was
the employee turnover intention.
The population of the study was the machine operators who are working
in the D. G. Fashion Garment (Pvt) Ltd, Dickwella. The sample size was
80 machine operators. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data
from the respondents. Descriptive analysis, Pearson correlation and regression analysis were used for the analytical purpose to achieve above
objectives.
A significant and strong positive relationship could be identified between
job stress and employee turnover intention throughout the study. There
were three influential significant stressors (Work overload, supervisor’s
support and role ambiguity) and the other stressor (co-workers’ support)
was not significant. Furthermore, work overload was the most influential
stressor for job stress and employee turnover intention.
