Relationship between Employees Motivation and Turnover Intention: Empirical Study of Traffic Police of District Charsadda

Motivation is the combination of all the factors both external and internal that stimulate desire and energy in people and make them constantly interested and committed to a job, role or subject, and enable them to make efforts for achieving organizational goals. Less motivated people can cause low performance, bad inspiration for co-workers, employees burnout etc. every organization tries to utilize their employees in an optimal way but sometimes motivation does restrict their desired goals. As an employer expects his personnel to perform, employees also expect something in return, which works as stimulus for motivation and when employees expectations are not fulfilled, addressed they simply leave the organization. This study was approached with the purpose of finding the perceived level of motivation (both intrinsic and extrinsic) and its effect upon employee's turnover intention. Data were collected through predesigned, self administered questionnaire. 62 respondents participated actively . For data investigation statistical measures like percentage, frequency, correlation and linear regression were used. For determining the validity Cronbach's alpha was used and it found that all the variables values stood above the minimum level of 0.70. showing the reliability of the data. The end results showed that both intrinsic motivation and over all motivation had effects upon turnover intention and it was concluded that there is significant and empirical correlation between motivation and turnover intention and also between intrinsic motivation and turnover intention.