Relationship between leadership style, job satisfaction and employees' turnover intention: A literature review

Abstract

Employee's turnover has been always a key concern issues faced by organizations regardless of its locations, sizes or natures of business. All parties in the organization play crucial role in promoting human capital to achieve competitive advantage. Therefore, high employee's turnover definitely will defeat this objective. Leadership styles and job satisfaction have been identified in this study that gives great impact to employees' turnover intention. Base on the literature review, majority of the studies had identified a negative relationship between job satisfaction and employees' turnover intention in various fields of industries. Similarly, researches on examining the relationship between leadership styles and job satisfaction have also indicated substantial degree of co-relationship between these two variables. © 2011 Academic Journals Inc.