Impact of Non-Standard Hours on Turnover Intention

Abstract

This research examines associations between Non-standard hours and Turnover intentions while Stress and Job satisfaction playing its role as mediator. Non-standard hours refer to working outside 9am-5pm hours Monday to Friday, Turnover Intention refers to consciously and measured readiness of leaving the organization by an employee where presently doing job. Employees like to doing their job is termed Job satisfaction and where deviance from usual psychological or physiological functioning instigated by constraints in immediate environment of individual is named stress. Data from 250 employees were collected in telecom sector of Islamabad; the researcher has divided data into two categories “standard and non-standard hours” as per respondent selection. Regression is run to analyze the relationship between Non-standard hours and turnover intention and the results are significant. For the mediation (Stress, Job satisfaction) process by preacher and Hayes researcher has applied model 6 and result are significant which shows that Job satisfaction and stress working as mediator between non-standard hours and Turnover intention. Outcomes provide indication that there is a need to address the issue of non-standard working hours to mend Job satisfaction and stress related issues as turnover ratio of non-standard is high. Researcher present that effects of non-standard working hours on employee health are hostile and Turnover intentions, and the result have inferences for different stakeholders including employers, human resources manager, trade unionists and policy makers of the government.