The relationship between work-place environment variables, burnout, and turnover intention among female staff of Saudi Universities

• Main Author: Abdullah F, Makhsum Taghreed
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employment
• Online Access: https://etd.uum.edu.my/9733/1/s823981_01.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/9733/2/s823981_02.pdf; https://etd.uum.edu.my/9733/

Employee turnover has become common in a lot of institutions. The turnover of the employee is frequency, and it has currently end up being a severe issue of every institution the research study is actually accomplished to take a look at the influence of the perceived organizational politics, perceived organizational support and the work life balance and job burnout as antecedents to the intent to turn over one of the female academicians. Additionally, the study has likewise examined the moderating role of the job burnout in the connection between perceived organizational support, perceived organizational politics, work lifestyle harmony and the turnover intention. The core issue of this study is the turnover rate of female academic staff at the Northern Perimeter College of KSA. The high turnover rate among female university staff in the KSA has further aggravated the prevailing shortage of female faculty members. This research is a scientific study that uses deductive approach and quantitative methods to statistically analyse the data collected by a well-structured survey. The valid samples are 239 that collected by using simple random technique from female academicians in the northern border University of KSA. Partial Least Square (PLS)-Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the data. The study examined three direct relationships and three moderating effect relationships. Perceived organizational politics have the highest impact on turnover intention (0.557), followed by work life balance (0.0197), then perceived organizational support (-0.084). For the moderating effect of job burnout, the interception in the relation from work life balance was rejected, but the other two effects were accepted. Finally, this study is the first of its kind examining the correlation between organisational factors and turnover intention among female teaching staff in a Saudi university. It is expected to be useful in facilitating policymakers and scholars in comprehending the link between perceived organisational politics, perceived organisational support and employee turnover intention.