Work Happiness and Intention to Leave of ICT Professionals in Malaysia: An Exploratory Study

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Abstract

Study on work happiness is important in individual especially in organization settings since the positive psychology movement started in the year 2000. This study assessed several factors that can contribute to maximize the quality of work performances. It was found that the existence of positive emotions at work contributed to reducing the employees’ intention to leave. As an exploratory study, the results also found that the constructs of work happiness have negative relationships with both intention to leave the organization and the career. Only general work happiness is significant with both intentions to leave whereas satisfaction with work was found to be not significant in the studied model through regression analyses. Implications of this study and recommendation for future studies are discussed.

Keywords

Work happiness Intention to leave ICT professionals 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Arshad Ayub Graduate Business SchoolUniversiti Teknologi MARAShah AlamMalaysia
  2. 2.INTEC Education CollegeShah AlamMalaysia

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