The determinants of engineer's turnover intention.

Abstract

Engineers have the specific knowledge that can be applied the theory into the practical. Therefore, losing engineers is the bad situation that organization would like to deal with. This research investigated the determinants of engineer’s turnover intention and generate the proper organizational policy to maintain engineer and retain the benefit of the organization. This research used the semi-structured interview method to let interviewer probe the interviewee freely to elaborate on the initial response or to follow an answer of the interviewee. The respondents are 15 engineers in Thailand. The finding of this research are job satisfaction, organizational culture, performance, salary, job security, challenging job, career path, colleague, organizational socialization, bias work evaluation, distance to workplace, and job offered.