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The Impact of Challenging Work on Employee’s Retention in the Manufacturing Industry in Klang Valley

International Journal of Psychology and Cognitive Science
Vol.5 , No. 1, Publication Date: Jan. 31, 2019, Page: 1-8

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[1]	Is’Haq Ibrahim, Faculty of Leadership & Management, University Sains, Isalm, Malaysia.
[2]	Kalsom Ali, Faculty of Leadership & Management, University Sains, Isalm, Malaysia.

Abstract

This paper proposed to study employee’s retention as one of most concerned issues in the worldwide industries, challenging work impact on employee’s retention is the factor will be tested in this research, task identity, skills variety, and autonomy are the variables would be representing the challenging work. Enriching the theoretical framework of challenging work and employee’s retention generally and manufacturing industry in Klang Valley specifically is also a crucial for further researches in the future. Specifically, this paper objective is to identify whether challenging work influence the employee’s retention in the manufacturing industry in Klang Valley. Furthermore, this research concluded of 463 response collected in a quantitative approach and analysed via SPSS and SEM (AMOS) that challenging work is positively affect the employee’s retention in the manufacturing industry in Klang valley. This paper found that there is a significant influence of challenging work on the employee’s retention in the manufacturing industry in Klang Valley.

Keywords

Employee’s Retention, Challenging Work, Manufacturing Industry, Task Identity, Skills Variety, Autonomy, Klang Valley

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