Abstract:
This research is about factors affecting employees’ turnover intention in construction
companies. Employees’ turnover intention is known as the organization’s workers’
intent or plan to leave their current working place’s position. Malaysia has scored third
highest voluntary turnover rate, which is 9.5% in Southeast Asia year 2015. Most of the
construction projects are difficult and complex to manage it. High employees’ turnover
rate may influence the construction companies’ productivity and performances. There
are many factors that will affect employees’ turnover intention, such as colleague
relations, organizational commitment, organizational justice, organizational reputation,
communication, and organizational politics. In order to address the issues above, this
research was aims to identify the factors affecting employees’ turnover intention and
to determine the relationship between the factors and employees’ turnover intention.
Therefore, in order to achieve these objectives, a questionnaire survey involving 160
employees conducted to Grade 7 construction company in Klang, Selangor. There
was 73 companies’ worker who responded to the survey. The data analysis conducted
using SPSS and SmartPLS, and the results showed that organizational politics were
mostly caused employees’ turnover intention in construction companies. The findings
also showed that communication and organizational politics had a negative relationship
with employees’ turnover intention. Results from this research can provide the evidence
and bring convince for the construction companies in Malaysia to reduce employees
turnover rate. In the future, the scope of the study can be expanded to other states of
Malaysia to improve the reliability of this study
