Effect of Role Conflict, Work Life Balance and Job Stress on Turnover Intention: Evidence from Pakistan

The fast moving world and the ever changing atmosphere in private sector organizations demand a low turnover rate for successful operations at low cost. Role conflict, job stress and issues related to work life are key determinants of turnover rate; therefore, this study has been conducted with an aim to find out the impact of above mentioned practices on turnover intention. Role conflict, job stress and work life balance are the independent variables while turnover intention is the dependent variable. Private sector banks of Pakistan have been selected as the target population and statistical analysis applied through SPSS and AMOS revealed that role conflict and job stress have a positive and significant relationship with turnover intention while insignificant relationship was found between work life balance and turnover intention. This study may prove to be a very productive one for private sector banks of Pakistan as on the basis of its findings employee turnover can be reduced.