A RESEARCH ON THE REASONS WHY FORMER EMPLOYEES LEFT ISLAMIC BANKS

It is assumed that employees working in participation (Islamic) banks have religious sensibilities and it is commonly thought that employees are leaving their jobs because of mentioned sensibilities. Purposes of this study are as follows: to ascertain reasons for the leaving of former employees in Islamic banks, to determine the key factors affecting their leavings, and to analyze whether religious attitudes are important factors to leave or not. For this purpose, a survey was conducted to former employees from different cities of Turkey. The data obtained was analyzed through Frequency Analysis, Factor Analysis, and Chi-Square analysis in SPSS. As a result of Factor Analysis, the study showed us key factors which affected their leaving decisions. The key factors are as follows: the lack of employee personal rights, reasons related to managers, reasons related to social environment, religious reasons, expectations about future, work related reasons, job satisfaction, personal reasons and other reasons. The results of Chi-square analysis showed that the former employees of participating (Islamic) banks have very high level of religiosity but this religiosity is not related to the decision to leave