Title An Analysis of Determinants of Turnover Intent of Architectural Design Firms
Authors Seo, Hee-Chang ; Oh, Jung-Keun ; Kim, Jea-Jun
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.6106/KJCEM.2012.13.5.064
Page pp.64-75
ISSN 1229-7534
Keywords Turnover Intent ; Determinants ; Architectural Design Firms ; Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP)
Abstract Today organizations are making considerable efforts in order to maintain excellent talent, and in particular, they are focusing on understanding their intentions of changing jobs which are most highly correlated with job turnover. In the case of architectural design firms, its intensity of work is very high unlike industrial settings, and it not only takes much time to cultivate new men of talent and but also is characteristic that employees can change livery easily because of the flexible labor market. The turnover rated by National Statistical Office indicates that specialized, scientific and technical service industry including the architectural design firm has a relatively high turnover rate compared to the average of the turnover rate of the overall industries. However, studies on intentions of changing jobs until now were conducted focused on employees engaged in other industrial areas, and it is true that studies regarding intentions of changing jobs of practitioners of architectural design firms are very insufficient. In this context, the present study aimed to draw determinants affecting intentions of changing jobs of practitioners of architectural design firms, to objectively understand the practitioners' intentions of changing jobs through importance analysis by each factor based on this and to make a comparative analysis of differences between the large scale architectural design firms and the small and medium sized architectural design firms