Abstract:
This research explores the relationship between work stress and intention for early retirement of the bank executives of XYZ bank. Intention for early retirement is measured on four subscales, namely role overload, role ambiguity, rule violation and job insecurity. Operators‘ characteristics considered are age, gender, education level, and experience. The proposed methodology includes an administration of questionnaire survey to sixty five bank executives followed by an analysis using correlation and regression analysis. The key findings are ; the four subscales can be used to measure intention for early retirement, and job insecurity and role ambiguity have a strong positive relationship with intention for early retirement while role overload and rule violation have moderate positive relationship with intention for early retirement.
