Abstract:
In present, tea plantation sector plays a vital role in the Sri Lankan context. Labor
Tumolero represents one of the major problems facing today's large scale plantation
companies because of this industry highly labor incentive. The aim of this study is to
find out "Factors affecting outgoing labors in tea plantation industry in Sri Lanka
(special reference Malate Valley Plantation PLC, Bandar Wela).
The study accompanies with quantitative research approach. This research has one
dependent variable and four independent variables. Independent variable consists
namely personal factors, compensation, work environment and supervision. At the
same time, use as dependent variable Labor Turnover. This study considers both
primary and secondary data. In fact, data had been gathered from 237 tea plantation
Labors using a questionnaire. The questionnaire was developed based on two parts
namely personal information and research information. A Five Point Likert's Scale was
used to measure the variables and this scale consists of the ranging from Strongly
Disagree to Strongly Agree. The collected data has been analyzed by using SPSS 22.0
version. This research is conducted using descriptive statistics, the ANOVA test
correlation and simple regression analysis. According to findings like Personal factors
gender, marital status, age, educational qualifications, income level experience were
identified as no significant influence the Labor Tumors intention. And also result of
analysis found there is strong negative relationship among compensation, work
environment factors and supervision and there is a negative impact on turnover
intention. So compensation, work environment factors and supervision were identified
as significant influence the Labor Turnover intention.
Better Work environment, adequate Compensation, good Supervision was identifi6d
as the major determinants of labors' intention to stay. Later, the study is provided
with recommendations on how to retain plantation labors by making them satisfied to
the best. At last, it is concluded by indicating insights for further research. So the study
was contributed to the filling the gaps in regarding topic in Sri Lankan context.
