The Relationship Between Job Satisfaction With Intention to Leave Job Among Academic Staffs in UUM

The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and intention to leave job among academic staff in UUM. Five facets of job satisfaction namely work itself, pay/salary, promotion, superior and co-workers satisfaction will be analysed to identify on the job satisfaction of academic staffs in UUM with their intention to leave job. Research instruments that were used to obtain the data are questionnaire. A total of 130 respondents were randomly selected from three colleges (COB/CAS/COLGIS) as the sample of the study. The data was analysed by "Statistical Package for Social Science" (SPSS Window) Version 16. The tests involved are reliability, Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Regression. The findings of the study show that the majority of the respondents are 30-39 years old and 42 percent of the respondent have been working for 5-9 years in
UUM. Generally, the results of job satisfaction and intention to leave supported the hypotheses. The strongest facet influenced academic staffs intention to leave is co-workers satisfaction. This means that, co-workers
satisfaction play important role in other academician intention either to leave or stay working at UUM. These finding also show that university should focus on related facets to retain their academicians. Finally, some recommendations been given for future study that would be more interesting and comprehensive.