The effect of employee’s Job satisfaction on turnover intention in the Mining industry: Case study on large scale Mining companies in North to North Eastern Ethiopia

Abstract

The objective of this research study was to investigate the effects of employee’s job satisfaction on the turnover intentions in the Ethiopian mining industry, focusing on the cluster of the north and north eastern Ethiopia’s large scale Mining companies. Census survey was conducted out of all the estimated population of 152 employees of the stratified mining companies in the selected cluster. The correlation data analysis showed that the extrinsic factor, the ‘company policy’ has a significant negative impact on the effects of employee’s job satisfaction in the selected mining companies of the target areas to the turnover intention. Based on the regression analyses of the data, ‘the company policy’ was high and negative in the regression expression but there was no independent variable that made unique contribution to the prediction of the turnover intention of the employees of selected mining companies of north to northeastern Ethiopia. It is suggested the management of the case study mining companies to take appropriate attention and measures in addressing the factors of employee’s job dis- satisfaction with the turnover intention which have shown statistically significant correlation as well as high beta values of the regression analyses. It would be also good to further study on few of the selected independent variables in similar clusters and other parts of the country’s mining activities.