It is crucial for manufacturing sectors to retain talented employees and
reduce employee turnover as the costliness of recruiting, hiring, training
and getting new employees diminishes organisations’ performance.
Although many researchers have discussed employee turnover
extensively, it remains an unresolved issue. This paper determines the
number of common factors influencing intention to leave one’s job. It
also analyses the stability and consistency with which the instrument
measures the concept and helps to assess the goodness of the measure.
Using cluster sampling, this study sampled 452 respondents in nine
manufacturing companies comprising nine districts in Selangor,
Malaysia. Consequently, the results show that all the Keiser-Meyer-
Olkim (KMO) values were above 0.6, and Cronbach’s alpha value for all
variables was above 0.5 meaning all constructs were accepted.
