Abstract
The turn over intention has dramatically caused high turnover among Malaysian unskilled workers in oil palm industry. Therefore, this study was to determine the level of local unskilled workers perception of turnover intention and provide additional insight for the industry players and policy maker to identify the needs and characteristics of the Malaysian employees to them to work in the oil palm plantation in future. This research used quantitative approach and cross- sectional method to address the current scenario in the oil palm plantation. Data were obtained from a field survey of 347 oil palm plantation employees all over Malaysia. A descriptive and cross-tab analysis was used to analyse the data. Findings of the research revealed the workers’ demographic characteristics namely age, gender and work tenure have the intention to leave. This research described that majority of respondents (58.5%) has intentions to leave from present job to another industry. Finding also found higher salary and allowance and free health service are keys to higher motivations. It was also suggested that employers should provide an attractive benefits package as a strategy to attract and retain workers.
Highlights
When a vacancy caused by voluntary or forced, a new employee to be taken and retrained and this process is called employee turnover (Hussain et al, 2013)
The uneven composition between the genders is due to the lack of suitable jobs for women. This oil palm industry is more suitable for men because of the 3D perception (Zaki et al, 2015)
The results show that a total of 155 male employees (62%) out of 250 male workers and a total of 48 female employees (49.5%) out of 97 female workers had the intention to shift to other sectors
Summary
When a vacancy caused by voluntary or forced, a new employee to be taken and retrained and this process is called employee turnover (Hussain et al, 2013). Turnover will cause costs to rise when hiring a company re-employment as well as a negative impact on the quality of service or product (Boudreau, 1992). Sarminah (2006) revealed that employers will be lost of benefits and friendships due to the loss of workers technical skills and experiences. Malaysia still depends on the agricultural sector to catalyst economic growth, employment opportunity, and food security. The palm oil industry as contributed RM67 billion for GNI in 2018. Most oil palm estates face labour shortages especially on Malaysian unskilled workers and the trend is rising every year (Azman, 2014). The utilization of the local unskilled workforce in the palm oil sector is very limited and it has led the country to continue to over dependent on foreign www.msocialsciences.com
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