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Content and face validity were established by a panel of human resources and statistical
experts. A pilot test was conducted with 45 employees not included in the sample.
Questionnaire reliability was estimated by calculating Cronbach‘s alpha. Reliability for
the overall instrument is placed under Appendix - A.
4. Results
Respondents consisted of 71.1% male and 25.9% female employees. The age of 47%
respondents was between 25-35 years and 21% respondents were below 25 years. Most
of the employees (66.4%) had attained a master degree. Almost 44.9% of the respondents
were from middle management, 23.2% supervisory level, 26.9% non-managerial and
4.9% top management. Number of years in present organization was from 3-5 years of
32.9% and 1-2 years of 26.1%. The majority of the respondents (64.6%) are permanently
employed. The contractual employees comprise (31%) respondents. Almost 47.5% of the
respondents were from managerial / Administrative category and 28.7% from technical
category. Majority of the respondents (67.6%) were directly recruited whereas 28.2%
respondents were promoted.
Based on a five point Likert type scale with responses ranging from strongly disagree (1)
to strongly agree (5), the overall level of job satisfaction was 3.71 (SD = 0.57). In terms
of Table 1 the results indicate that there is a slight mean difference in the levels of job
satisfaction with job performance (Mean = 3.68, SD = 0.65) and job satisfaction with job
retention (Mean = 3.16, SD = 0.60).
Variables
Table: 1. Descriptive Statistics of all Variables
Minimum Maximum Mean Std. Deviation
Job Performance 1.00 5.00 3.68 0.65
Job Satisfaction 2.17 5.00 3.71 0.57
Job Retention 1.67 4.83 3.16 0.60
Valid N 568 568 568 568
Correlation coefficients were calculated to describe the relationships between job
satisfaction and job performance, job retention and job performance, job satisfaction and
job retention (Table 2). Correlation coefficients were as follows: Job satisfaction, r =
0.52; Job Retention, r = 0.23; and Job satisfaction-Job Retention, r = 0.34. Relations
between job satisfaction and job performance were found highly significant whereas
other relations were found significant also.
Table: 2. Relationships between Job Performance (JP), Job satisfaction (JS) and Job
Retention (JR)
VARIABLES JP JS JR
Job Performance ( JP )
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