Abstract:
A huge concern to most companies is that employee turnover is a costly undertaking especially in organizations that thrives and values viability of the business. Employees’ wages, company benefits, employee attendance, and job performance are all factors that contribute to employee turnover. The company take a deep interest in their employee turnover rate because turnover affect the running of the business by creating disruptions which results to reduced production and profits of the organization. The researcher initiated to investigate this study was the existence of high rate of employee turnover in Angolela and Tera wereda. The main objective of this research was identifying factors that affect employee turnover in Angolela and Tera wereda. Descriptive and explanatory research design was used for this study. The data collection instruments were structured closed and open ended questionnaire, and semi structured interview were used. A sample size of study population was 182 employees of the wereda office out 1998 from the total population of employees. Stratified sampling was used for this study. To analyse the data descriptive statics and inferential statistics were used by using SPSS software version 20. Overwork load, lack of tanning and development, lack of reward and recognition and all of the organizational factors, social factors and personal factors were affected employee turnover in Angolela and Tera wereda. The positive correlation of organizational, social and personal factor of turnover was founded in the study. The marital status and qualification of employee have a negative effect on turnover in Angolela and Tera wereda. The researcher recommended that the management bodies of the organization should work hard and discus together about work load in order to outline job design for every employee and be ready to employing new employees during turnover is existed other than giving over activities for the rest individuals. The researcher recommended that the organizations of Angolela and Tera Wereda should offer challenging jobs and responsibilities for employees or workers and give recognition and reward for an individual who have score best performance and be role model for the others and it help employee to increase their loyalty and commitment to their office.