Determining the Factors Affecting Retention of Employees in Taiwanese Electronic's Firms - General Vs Repatriated Employees

This study set out to examine the differences leading to turnover intention between two groups, general and repatriated employees. The issue of whether job satisfaction, organizational commitment and attitude of job-hopping can affect Taiwanese IT general employees and repatriates’ intention to leave the organization was analyzed, and helped to explain the potential difference in turnover intention between the two groups of employees. Based on the results, for general employees, payment, nature of work and job-hopping were found to be negatively related to turnover intention. For repatriated employees, organizational commitment was the only factor found to be significantly related to turnover intention. Surprisingly, there was no significant difference in turnover intention between the two groups, which is contrary to most empirical observations that suggest a higher rate of turnover among repatriated employees. However, there exist very strong differences in terms of reasons to leave an organization between these two groups. The findings of this paper strongly suggest that there exists substantially different reasons leading to turnover between the two groups, and that further support programs or initiatives would go a long way in addressing both groups' concerns.