Relationship Between Hygiene Factor Dimensions and Intention to Leave Among Prison Personnel: A Study in Northern Region of Malaysia

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between dimensions of hygiene factors and intention to leave among prison personnel, also to identify whether there is dominant dimension of hygiene factor that has higher effect than other dimensions related to intention to leave. The findings were done by using reliability test, multiple regression and Pearson correlations. The research done by mean of survey, a questionnaire was distributed to 310 randomly selected respondents. The data was analyzed by using SPSS version 16.0 The findings indicate that there is significant negative relationship between three dimensions of hygiene factor and intention to leave, however only one dimension not significant. Coworker is the dominant dimension that has the highest influence on intention to leave. These findings show that the related factors should have given attention to retain employees in the organization. Some suggestions have been recommended for the organization and for future research to be more complete and comprehensive.