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 Volume 8, Issue 5 (May 2021), Pages: 53-58

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: The impact of job satisfaction on the employees turnover intention at public universities (Northern Border University)

 Author(s): Dirar Abdulaziz Atallah AL-Maaitah 1, *, Tamara Adel Muslem Al-Maaitah 1, Omar Hamdan Mohammad Alkharabsheh 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Human Resource Department, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia
 2Department of Human Resource, Faculty of Business Administration, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1968-9050

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.05.006

 Abstract:

Job satisfaction has been one of the tops extensively studied central elements of the organization in terms of organizational success. In the present study, the primary objective is to examine job satisfaction in the context of the non-academic (administrative staff) in Northern Border University (NBU) in Saudi Arabia, measured through their level of job satisfaction. The study focuses on the turnover amongst the employees in an attempt to develop an incentive initiative via increased remuneration. Based on the findings, administrative staff job satisfaction level was high and such level was influenced by gender, with male staff members being more satisfied than their female counterparts. The findings also showed that staff with shorter tenure had higher levels of job satisfaction than long-tenured staff. The same higher job satisfaction held true for those with lower qualifications and job levels, in comparison to those with high qualifications and job levels. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Job satisfaction, Turnover, Northern border university, Work motivation, Work quality, Workforce environment, Working conditions, Incentive programs

 Article History: Received 3 September 2020, Received in revised form 13 December 2020, Accepted 18 January 2021

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

  AL-Maaitah DAA, Al-Maaitah TAM, and Alkharabsheh OHM (2021). The impact of job satisfaction on the employees turnover intention at public universities (Northern Border University). International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(5): 53-58

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