Impact of Job stress and Turnover Intentions on Employee absenteeism with Reference to Fabrication industry

Abstract

The Article study to analyses the causes of employee absenteeism. Job stress and turnover intentions are the two independent variables and employee absenteeism is the dependable variable taken for the study. For this purpose employees in fabrication industry were taken for the study. A questionnaire with Likert Scale (1: Strongly Disagree to 5: Strongly agree) was designed for data collection. 200 questionnaire were distributed out of which 190 questionnaire were received. The response rate was 95%. The first part of the questionnaire comprised of gender, age, income, level of management and marital status of employees. Factor analysis and Simple regression were used in the study to examine the impact of job stress and turnover intentions in SPSS 21. The results and findings of the analysis confirm that job stress and turnover intentions do contribute for employee absenteeism. Future research should take more variables for the above study. The innovative and contribution to research is that there are few national and international reviews found in fabrication industry. Hence this study would contribute to review of literature.