Turnover intention after merger and acquisition exercise becomes a threat to the
organization. Turnover defined when an employee resigned from their current position
and left the organization. An intention of turnover can be among good employees with
high skill and knowledge that is very valuable to the organization. A good employee
that leaves the organization will bring together their knowledge and skills. The
organization will have some loss, especially when the employee from the technical field
or management position. The purpose of this research is to study either human resources
practices such as reward, training and development, job security, and internal job
opportunities trigger turnover intention among employees after merger and acquisition
exercise. Understanding the factors affecting the staff turnover in the organization
provides valuable inputs to human resource professionals to reduce the staff turnover
issues in the organization. The company chosen for this research is UEM Edgenta Sdn
Bhd, one of the Government's Linked-Companies and one of the companies in the
construction industry. Quantitative research methodologies are applied in this research.
A stratified sampling technique is used to select the sample size from the population
within the organization. The respondents selected among employees based on Menara
UEM, Kuala Lumpur. Data were collected by distributed 250 sets of questionnaires that
adapted from several previous researchers to the respondents at Menara UEM. There is
three (3) section of a questionnaire which is demographic, Turnover Intention, and
Factor that Influence of Turnover Intention. Standard SPSS statistical measures were
used to analyze the data. Based on the findings, Job Security becomes most of the
factors of human resources practice that influence Turnover Intention after merger and
acquisition exercise and all the variables have a significant relationship with the
dependent variable which is Turnover Intention. The human resources department of
UEM Edgenta should focus more on how to ensure job security among employees after
merger and acquisition exercise.
