KUALA LUMPUR, May 7 — As many as 74 per cent out of 631 employees are dissatisfied at their workplaces, a survey on job satisfaction conducted by Jobstreet.com found, with majority of them citing poor leadership and management as the chief reason.
The job agency said the numbers were four per cent lower than the findings of a similar survey done in 2012 but the percentage is still staggering high.
It also found that more than half of those who felt dissatisfied at work are senior executives and managers, which the agency described as “disturbing”.
“71 per cent have revealed that the main cause for this dissatisfaction is due to poor quality of leadership or management in companies.
“The disturbing matter, however, is that more than half of these discontented employees include senior executives and managers,” Jobstreet said.
Surprisingly only 11 per cent of respondents said that poor salary was the main reason behind their discontent at work.
But when asked about salary in general, 61 per cent of the total respondents felt that their salaries were low or not enough to survive with while only 37 per cent of the respondents said that they are getting reasonable wages from their companies.
From the 74 per cent of respondents who are not satisfied with their jobs, 57 per cent of them said they intend to leave their current job in less than a year while 32 per cent plan to leave within the next 3 years.
“These results suggest that 89 per cent of these unhappy employees could leave their companies in less than 3 years, something employers should be mindful of,” the company noted.
Just two months, it was reported that ninety three per cent of Malaysians are prepared to leave the country in search of jobs and experience, according to a new employment survey that has dire implications on Malaysia’s chronic brain drain.
In its regional survey, recruitment firm Hays found that just seven per cent of Malaysians would not move abroad for better job prospects, career advancement or better lifestyles.
This mobility is compounded by a previous Hays study that showed five per cent of the Malaysian workforce exited the country annually, with Singapore being the prime destination.
According to a World Bank report in 2011, the number of skilled Malaysians living abroad rose 300 per cent in the last two decades, with two out of every 10 Malaysians with tertiary education opting to leave for either Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries or Singapore.
The organisation also highlighted a geographic and ethnic component to the talent outflow, with about 88 per cent of the Malaysian diaspora in Singapore being of ethnic Chinese origin.
Worryingly for Malaysia, the World Bank report concluded that these migrants were being replaced by unskilled and uneducated foreigners.
