Effect of Job Stress on Employees Turnover Among Junior Staff in Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti.

ABSTRACT This study evaluate the effects of job stress on employees turnover among staff in Ekiti state. Descriptive research design was used. The population comprised two hundred and Forty (240) Ekiti state university junior staffs from in Ekiti state university, Ekiti state. A self-constructed questionnaire was used for data collection. Face and content validity was used. The result revealed that there is a significant between lack of autonomy and employees turnover among staff. In addition it was revealed that the correlation that exists between lack of autonomy and employees turnover among staff was weak and negative. The result also revealed that job insecurity and employees turnover among staff. In addition it was revealed that the correlation that exists between job insecurity and employees turnover among staff was weak and negative. Based on the findings, it was recommended that management and employers of labour should not display indifference to those factors that could lead to employee turnover because these would eventually affect the performance of the organization negatively and paint the organization bad in the market. The personnel make or mare the organization so the importance of ensuring the retention of the talent cannot be over emphasized. Selection, recruitment and placement must be done with serious diligence so that the right candidates for the job are selected and placed in the right positions. Training and retraining should be a major policy of the organization that intends to have competitive advantage in the present global market because there new technologies every time, and the employees not being trained to use these technologies to enhance their work would leave the organization behind in the present technologically driven globally market.