Impacts of voluntary labour turnover on production in Tobacco industry in Tanzania: Evidence from alliance one Tobacco Tanzania Limited
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2014
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Mzumbe university
Abstract
Production is a very important issue for an industry or organization. There are several factors on which production of an organization mostly depends upon. Employee’s voluntary turnover is one of them which are considered to be one of the challenging issues in business now days. The impact of voluntary turnover has received considerable attention by senior management, human resources professionals and industrial psychologists. It has proven to be one of the most costly and seemingly intractable human resources challenges confronting by several organizations globally. Voluntary labor turnover is a costly problem and an economic drain to Tobacco Industries, costs Tobacco Industries in Tanzania huge sum of money in recruiting and training replacements. Alliance Tobacco Tanzania Limited has incurred costs on recruitment and training new employees, work disruption, increased scrap and overtime as a result of departed workers for the past four years while they have the task to increase government revenue and developing social activities through tobacco productions. This research study focused on Alliance Tobacco Tanzania Limited, Voluntary Turnover and its main objective is to assess the factors (Psychological, Economic and Demographic factors) that contribute to labor voluntary turnover on production in Tobacco Industry in Tanzania. The study was able to find out the causes of labor voluntary turnover and effect of labor voluntary turnover on production to Alliance One Tobacco Limited. Key models and theories from the literature of labor turnover were presented. The study used a sample size of 43 out the total population of 327. Purposeful sampling in this study used to select the key respondents while stratified random sampling used to select the main respondents. The study used interview schedule and questionnaires to collect data; they will be administered to the key and main respondents at their offices. Data analyzed using frequency distribution tables and analysis will be done to identifies the key factors of labour turnover and its intent to leave the organization and also the results will be revealed to prove that, labour turnover have a direct impact to production. Keywords: Labor turnover; Voluntary Turnover, Psychological Factors, Economic Factors, Demographic Factors and Production Turnover Costs
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A dissertation submitted to Mzumbe University as a partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) of Mzumbe University.
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Tobacco industry, Labour turnover, Voluntary labour turnover, Labour turnover in Tobacco industry
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