iThe investigation of the individual factors on turnover intention of employees in education administration of Kurdistan Province

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In this article we are going to investigate effect of factors effect turnover intention. Population is all of employees of education administration of Kurdistan Province and sample includes 140 people of this population which were selected randomly. Competitiveness questionnaire of Brown et al.(1198), self efficacy of Jones (1986), effort of Brown and Leigh(1996), performance of Babin and Boles(1998), job satisfaction of Hartline and Ferrell(1996), turnover intention of Hartline and Allen(2000) were used to aggregate data. We took advantage factor analysis for validity of instruments. LISREL and SPSS were used to data analysis. Results show that competitiveness, self efficacy and effort have meaningful effect on performance; self efficacy and effort have meaningful effect on job satisfaction; performance and job satisfaction have meaningful effect on turnover intention and finally structural model between variables was desirable (GFI: 0.94, AGFI: 0.92 and RMSEA: 0.031).

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Journal of Public Administration
Volume 8, Issue 1
April 2016
Pages 219-232

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