Impact of work alienation feelings on turnover intention in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority located in Jordan

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of work alienation on employee turnover intention among the employees in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority. Descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional design were used by distributing of (100) self reporting questionnaire, which was consist of three parts; the first part was for the demographical characteristics of the employees, the second part was for the Work Alienation scale and the third part was Anticipated Turnover Scale (ATS). The results revealed that work alienation levels was in a moderate level {mean= 3.13 (SD=.81)}, and a total of 27 (29.3%) employees show the aim of turnover the jobs. Moreover, the regression results reveals that there was a strong significance effect for work alienation on employee turnover intention (r = .729); and (53.1%) of the employee turnover intention could be explained from work alienation. The negative effect of work alienation in the preservation of the expert employees, need more focus and hard work by the human resources departments to take precautionary measures for this negative effect.

Training satisfaction relative to turnover intention: the mediating role of employee loyalty

“…In addition, the public sector in Jordan is beset by two issues: a shortage of technical professions and a high turnover rate among them, according to the government database (kharabsheh, 2017). Recently, Nawafleh and Qerba et al (2021) investigate the effect of work alienation on employee TI between the employees in the Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority located in Jordan; they found 29.3% of employees demonstrate their desire of turnover the jobs. The increase of TI is back to several of socio-economic or cultural reasons such as other organizations’ offerings to employees, the compensation systems, assessment systems and promotion systems do not meeting the requirements and ambitions of the employees.…”