A LITERATURE REVIEW ON EMPLOYEE TURNOVER IN THE SRI LANKAN APPAREL INDUSTRY

Employees are the key players in any industry. Therefore retaining them in the workplace for a long time would provide many financial and non-financial benefits to the respective organizations. But, many studies and author observations have emphasized the employee turnover as a great issue in the Sri Lankan Apparel industry. Therefore this study aimed to further investigate employee turnover hence the related literature was comprehensively reviewed. Theoretical review of related equations to calculate the employee turnover revealed necessary measures to be obtained from the workplace. Empirically reviewing the past researches suggested factors affecting employee turnover based on different industrial contexts. Amongst, this study selected twelve factors under the three major categories of demographic, socio economic and environmental. Since evidence could be found for the significant relationships among those factors and employee turnover within the Sri Lankan Apparel industry through the substantive literature, this study suggested twelve hypotheses relevant to the selected factors as variables. Moreover, this literature review encouraged future researches providing further evidence for the factors affecting employee turnover in the Sri Lankan manufacturing sector. Also, this study provided substantial knowledge required for further researches related to employee turnover in other industrial contexts.