Factors Affecting Turnover Intention Among Employees of East Africa Bottling Share Company - Dire Dawa Plant

The main objective of this study was to analyze the effects of factors of employee’s turnover intention in East Africa Bottling Share Company, Dire Dawa plant. Employee turnover intention is the dependent variable in the study. Whereas the independent variables considered in the study as the factors for employee turnover intention were job satisfaction, salary and benefits, job stress, available alternative job, recognition and career growth. Both descriptive and explanatory research designs were used with a quantitative research approach. The study used close ended self-administered questionnaire to collect quantitative data. The target population was the employees of East Africa Bottling Share Company in the Dire Dawa plant. Using a census sampling method, the whole 313 permanent employees were used as sample respondents. The gathered data was analyzed using SPSS version 26 software. Mean and standard deviation were used for descriptive analysis, while ANOVA and Pearson correlation were used for inferential analysis. According to the findings salary & benefit (β=-0.135, p=0.034) has negative and significant effect on turnover intention, job stress (β=0.800, p=0.000) and alternative job opportunity (β=0.693, p=0.000) have a positive and significant effect on turnover intention. Career growth (β=-0.325, p=0.115) and recognition (β=-0.047, p=0.743) were found to be insignificant with negative effects. The study recommended the company should take focus on salary & benefit scheme, job stress and employees career growth.