Impact of toxic work environment on employee turnover intention in pharmaceutical industry, Klang Valley, Malaysia

Author: 
Low Siew Beng and Ananthalakshmi Mahadevan

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the impact of toxic work environment and employee turnover intention from pharmaceutical industry in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Employee turnover is getting higher in recent years. It becomes a concern of the organization whereby the employees are decided to leave voluntary or involuntary. One of the reasons contributed to this high turnover would be toxic work environment. Toxic work environment consists of multiple factors such as workplace bullying, work stress, job burnout, leadership style and work-life balance. In this research, a statistical design approach is used to collect 180 primary data through cross sectional field survey questionnaires using non-probability convenience sampling method. All the data are analysed using SPSS 22 for demographic analysis, normality test, reliability test, data distribution, correlation, and regression analysis. The result showed that toxic work environment has a significant impact on employee turnover intention.

Paper No: 
4619