Employee Job Search Motivation Factors: An evidence from Electricity Provider Company in Malaysia

Abstract Having unpleasant feelings about job may lead individuals to search alternative mechanisms in order to reduce the dissatisfaction. This study aims to investigate the motivation factors that influence the employed employees to search for a new job. The data were collected from a well-known Malaysia electricity provider company. Three hundred observation was used to test the hypothesis. The data were analyzed by using Correlation Bivariate analysis. The results illustrate that the environment is the most influential job search motivation factor.

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