Relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention among employees at Jabatan Agama Islam Melaka (JAIM)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention at Jabatan Agama Islam Melaka (JAIM) . The research question of is there are relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention at JAIM. There are three research objectives had been set in this study. First, is to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and pay. Second, is to investigate the relationship between work and turnover intention. Third, is to investigate the relationship between supervision and turnover intention. In order to complete this study, the data is obtained from primary data through the distribution of questionnaires. A total of 127 questionnaires are distributed among employees in JAIM, and only 83 of questionnaires are fully complete answered. Then, all the collected data are analysed by using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 20. From the correlation testing, the result show that only one of the three variables that are significant which is work. The pay and supervision variables shows that this two variables have no significant relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention at this organization. All the independent variables which is pay, work and supervision have a positive relationship with turnover intention. Hence, all of the hypotheses testing are not accepted. The result also revealed that variable of work that are significant relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention. In conclusions, it shows that employees in JAIM who receives a better work condition from their organization at the workplace will increase their job satisfaction and lower the turnover intention level in that organization.