Impact of Individual and Employment Variable on Job Satisfaction & Turnover Intention among Sales and Marketing Professionals

Employee retention is fast becoming one of the most critical managerial functions, as it affects organizational effectiveness, due to the generally increasing trends of employee turnover across the world. The employee turnover has shown a higher prevalence in certain organizational functions like Sales & Marketing; which needless to say are very important due to their boundary spanning and customer interfacing nature. The current study looks at the impact of personal and employment related variables on affective job satisfaction and the resultant turnover intention. The study looks at the impact of age, experience, gender, position, salary, type of organization, financial turnover of the organization, educational qualification, place of posting, dependence status, additional family income & professional membership on job satisfaction and turnover intention.