Abstract:
This research was a cross sectional study which aimed to study factors related to job retention among the construction workers in a building construction company in the Bangkok Metropolitan region. 182 participants were recruited. All data were collected by questionnaire administration. Most workers were men (57.1%), with a mean age of 29.9 years old. Most were married (60.4%) and received primary education (39.0%). Most had average monthly income around 10,001-20,000 Baht (57.2%) and worked in construction section (53.3%). 53.3% of the participants had worked in their current position for 1-5 years. We found that safety management, reward/compensation, social support and job retention were rate at high level 91.2%, 96.7%, 98.9% and 58.8%, respectively. Statistically, marital status, daily working duration, safety management, reward/compensation and social support were related significantly to job retention (p = 0.041; r = 0.176, p = 0.017; r = 0.247, p =0.001; r = 0.562, p < 0.001; and r = 0.645, p < 0.001, respectively). Therefore, the author suggests that the results of this study are useful to manage for the construction workerss job retention.