The Impact of Pay Satisfaction, Stress, and Self-Efficacy on Intention to Stay Among the Participants of Return-To-Work Program

Abstract

In the case of work-related injury/illness, rehabilitation that commences at the earliest may help the injured or disabled workers to return to work as fit, safe and quick as possible. While the effectiveness of the Return-to-Work (RTW) program relies on the number of injured participants who had returned to work, there were a number of participants reluctant to return to work, or unable to retain at work. It is therefore, pertinent to understand the reasons that make them sustain at work due to the issue of turnover to some of them. The objective of this study is to examine the factors affecting return-to-work experienced by the participants, by looking at the influence of pay satisfaction, stress, and self-efficacy on their turnover intention. A total of 187 RTW participants in various industries in the Klang Valley, Malaysia, participated in the study.  Statistical analyses were conducted using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) and the Partial Least Square (PLS). The findings showed a significant impact of stress and self-efficacy on intention to stay among the participants of RTW. The result indicated that 24.1 percent of the total variance of intention to stay was explained by the factors examined in this study.