Employee Retention at Anya Thani Industrial Estate

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the level of job satisfaction and factors of employee retention at Anya Thani Industrial Estate by using statistical quantitative research application with a questionnaire as a tool. The statistical application used were percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation, and regression.

            Findings from the study revealed that most of 400 respondents were females, earned bachelor degree, age over 36 years old, married status, work for corporation between 5-10 years, earned monthly income over 20,000 baht, and operational level of occupation. The average picture of the opinions of job satisfaction and factors of employee retention were in high level. The hypothesis testing revealed that the personal different such as gender, age, marital status, level of education, average monthly income, duration of work, and work position affected job satisfaction and factors of employee retention at Anya Thani Industrial Estate at statistical significant 0.01 level. The picture of the opinions of factors of employee retention correlated to job satisfaction at high level in same direction such as following details, compensations, corporation culture, and work atmosphere.

            Recommendations from the study were that administrative officers should pay attention to the following factors such as salary, compensation which comply by the government regulation, job responsibility, when there are new hire, company should give orientation regarding company culture and policy, supervisors should treat employees equally, advance training for future career position professionally in a systematic way, safety job environment to prevent  work accidents, and building relations between colleagues at all level consistently.

Key words : Factors of Eemployee Retention at Anya Thani Industrial Estate