Manisha Srivastava, Anita Pradhan and Sasmita Mishra
KIIT University, Bhubaneswar
Employee turnover in academics as consequences that is quite different from other
organizations, as these organisations are knowledge intensive and student centric. This
research takes into consideration impact of career development opportunities and job
satisfaction on employee turnover in academic industry. Since, turnover intention has
been found to be a complex behaviour across industries, and researchers have been
testing different models to predict turnover intention. This study aims at examining the
mediating role of job satisfaction on career development opportunities and turnover
intention in an Indian academic sector. In total 375 responses were recorded through
standard scale questionnaires. After outlier elimination, 339 responses were used for
scale validation and data analysis. Data were analyzed with the help of SPSS 24.0
and AMOS 24.0. Path analysis of the variables showed that career development
opportunities enhanced the job satisfaction level of the employees and job satisfaction
in turn reduced their intention to quit the organisation. Findings were discussed with
reference to previous studies and findings
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