Abstract:
Employee turnover or retention has dominated the research agenda and
attracted practitioners’ attention for decades. Previous research has,
however, suffered from lack of macro perspective in understanding
employee turnover in organizations. Based on the survey of employees
in a clay brick manufacturing company in Lesotho, the purpose of the
present study was to examine the impact of job satisfaction and cultural
traits on turnover intentions. There was a negative and significant
correlation between job satisfaction and turnover intentions, and all
cultural traits and turnover intentions. Though the variance contributed
by cultural traits (stability and flexibility) over demographic factors
and job satisfaction was only marginally significant, and the impact of
flexibility cultural trait became insignificant in the regression analysis,
the influence of stability cultural trait remained strong in both
correlation and regression analyses. Managerial and theoretical
implications are also discussed in this study
