Abstract:
This study attempts to identify the impact of job stress on turnover intention
among machine operators in reputed apparel firm in Sri Lanka. Due to high
level of turnover among machine operators, Presently Sri Lankan apparel
industry faces a greater difficulties and it is noted that little attempt has been
taken by the researchers to integrate the job stress with turnover intention in
Sri Lankan literature. Hence problem of this study is to investigate „How the
job stress causes an impact on turnover intention among machine operators in
reputed apparel firm in Sri Lanka‟. This study is conducted under the mixed
research method and data were collected through a self-administered
questionnaire consisting of 23 questions with five point Likert scale ranging
from “strongly agree” to “strongly disagree”. In addition to that, data were
collected through structured interviews with ten resigned employees. Under
the universal sampling method, data were collected from 90 machine
operators currently employed in the selected apparel firms. Data thus collected
were analyzed using SPPS computer package having the univariate and
bivariate analyses. Findings of the research revealed that there is a positive
impact of job stress on turnover intention among machine operators in reputed
apparel firms in Sri Lanka. It was concluded that there is a positive impact of
job stress on turnover intention which means that majority of machine
operators have a high degree of job stress. Further, this study also supported
the view that the managers of apparel firms should get strategic steps to
reduce job stress and turnover intention among the employees.
