Abstract—Many organizations have this problem in retaining their good employees. Many methods have also been used to overcome this problem but this issue can never go away easily. This paper tries to explore a possible factor that can give great impact to turnover intention of employees in an organization. Base on a review of the literature, majority of the studies had identified a negative relationship between leadership style and employees’ turnover intention in various fields of industries. Transformational and transactional leadership styles might be one of the effective solutions for organizations who has high employees’ turnover.
Index Terms—Leadership style; employees’ turnover; transformation; transactional; organization.
C. S. Long is with Faculty of Management and HRD, Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia
L. Y. Thean is with Centre of Graduate Studies, Wawasan Open
University, Malaysia (e-mail: cslong_1@yahoo.com)
Cite: Choi Sang Long and Lee Yean Thean, "Employees’ Turnover Intention: A Leadership Issue?," International Journal of Future Computer and Communication vol. 1, no. 3, pp.229-231, 2012.
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