PROPENSITY TO TURN OVER AMONG FEMALE EMPLOYEES – A STUDY ON KERALA STATE ROAD TRANSPORT CORPORATION
Keywords:
organizational commitment, Job Satisfaction, Proneness to Turnover, KSRTCAbstract
The women conductors’ potentiality to turnover is one of the major issues to be addressed, especially in the case of loss making public utility service like Kerala State Road Transport Corporation. Even when it is finding it difficult to make both ends meet, employee turnover adds to different kinds of burdens to the Corporation. In the current scenario, the propensity to turnover has usually seen among the female conductors in the Corporation. This study tries to isolate the level of job satisfaction, organizational commitment and the propensity to turnover among female conductors in the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation. An investigation based on the satisfaction level of female conductor’s and their commitment towards the corporation gives a clear picture to find out the solution for propensity to turn over. So the present paper analyses the effect of organizational commitment and job satisfaction among female conductors in KSRTC. The sample for the study was consisted of 85 women conductors selected at random from the list of women conductors in Thiruvananthapuram, Ernakulum and Kozhikode depots of KSRTC. The statistical tools used for the analysis was a logistic regression model, whose result was then converted into a probability. The result of the analysis indicates that age, level of education, job satisfaction, continuance commitment and length of service have a significant effect on female conductor’s proneness to turnover in KSRTC.
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