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Given the rapidly changing environment and the rising trend of international competitiveness, maintaining and retaining talented and skilled academic employees are essential for the performance of university institutions. Since academic turnover is rising in the high education sector, academic institutions struggle to attract, maintain, and retain top-talented employees. In order to outperform competitors in the dynamic, unstable, and unpredictable academic environment, university institutions must manage their human resources effectively. Thus, the goal of this study is to ascertain how academic human resource management (HRM) practices affect employees’ intentions to leave, with job satisfaction acting as a mediator and external job opportunities as a moderator. Social exchange theory served as the study’s theoretical underpinning. Data were collected from 466 participants in an online survey using a cross-sectional research methodology, and the analysis was carried out using partial least structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). The findings revealed that HRM practices were negatively related to academic employees’ intention to leave. Furthermore, the results of the study showed that job satisfaction significantly mediates the relationship between HRM practices and employee intention to leave. The outcomes also confirmed that job opportunity significantly moderates the relationship between employee intention to leave and job satisfaction. The findings lead to a coherent model of retention strategy that will be incredibly beneficial to academic HR professionals, policymakers and education management in creating and developing a long-term strategy plan for recruiting and retention.
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Permarupan, P.Y., Saufi, R.A., Aidara, S., Nawi, N.B.C., Zainol, N.R.B., Jothi, B. (2024). Human Resource Management Practices Toward Job Satisfaction and Employee Intention to Leave Academic Institutions. In: Khamis Hamdan, R., Hamdan, A., Alareeni, B., Khoury, R.E. (eds) Information and Communication Technology in Technical and Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable and Equal Opportunity. Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, vol 38. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6909-8_47
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