Abstract:
Employee turnover were giving sleepness nights to human resource managers in Kombolcha
Textile Share Company. A widely held belief in this governmental enterprise are that
employees have developed bad attitudes due to labor shortage unfortunately, despite
employee turnover being a serious problem in Kombolcha Textile Share Company, their are.
no dearth of studies investigating it, especially studies u~ing a comprehensive set of causal
variables are rare. In this study, the researcher examined were three sets of antecedents of
turnover intention in Kombolcha Textile Share Company; i.e, Demographic, controllable, and
uncontrollable. The data were collected between February and march 2002, by distributing
self-administered questionnaire and finally analyzed by descriptive analysis especially
percentage and tabulation. Kombolcha Textile Share Company provide an appropriate setting v.
as their turnover is much greater rates are among the other governmental institution in the
country. Findings of the study were suggested that the extent of controllable turnover is much
greater than uncontrollable turnover and that poor management practices were the major
source of employee turnover.
