TITLE:
Human Resource Management Practices and Employee Turnover Intentions Nexus: Does the Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction Matter?
AUTHORS:
Isaac Kofi Dasilveira, Jingzhao Yang, Isaac Adjei Mensah, Alfred Quarcoo
KEYWORDS:
Human Resource Management, Employee Turnover Intentions, Job Satisfaction, Path Analysis, Ghana
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Business and Management,
Vol.8 No.1,
November
25,
2019
ABSTRACT: This current paper explores the nexus amid human resource management practices
and employee turnover intentions in private organizations in an evolving economy,
Ghana. Particularly, the study is centered on the mediating role of job satisfaction
within the relationship between human resource management and employee turnover
intentions. The study depended solely on a survey approach through purposive and
simple random sampling techniques. The survey was conducted among the top ten private
organizations in Ghana via purposive sampling
approach whereas the simple random sampling method was used to select 20 respondents
from each selected firm. A total of 200 questionnaires were administered, of 186 were
valid to be used representing a response rate of 93%. The application of a path
analysis approach showed that; 1) both HRM practices and job satisfaction have a
significant negative effect on employee turnover intentions, 2) there is a significant
positive relationship between HRM practices and job satisfaction, 3) job satisfaction
efficiently mediates the relationship between HRM practices and employee turnover
intentions. The results from the analysis statistically indicate that leaders in various private organizations must develop
a strategy by which they can improve management practices to enhance employee job
satisfaction, which will then reduce or have a negative effect on employee turnover intensions. We thus conclude that job satisfaction really matters within the
affiliation between HRM practices and employee turn intentions.