Abstract:
The objectives of this study are to investigate 1) levels of job-esteem, work and life balance, and resignation trend of production employees in the automotive parts industry; 2)relationship between job-esteem and resignation trend of production employees in the automotive parts industry; 3)relationship between work and life balance, and resignation trend; 4)predicting resignation trend with job-esteem and work and life balance. The participants were 327production employees in the automotive parts industry. The instrument in the study was a questionnaire. The statistic used to analyze data were percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson Product Moment Correlation, and Stepwise Multiple Regression Analysis. The results revealed that 1) employees in the automotive parts industry had highest level of job-esteem, highest level of work and life balance and middle level of resignation trend 2) there was a negative relationship between job-esteem and resignation trend with a statistical significance at .01 level; 3) there was a negative relationship between work and life balance and resignation trend with a statistical significance at .01 level; and 4) work and life balance of involvement balance, time balance, satisfaction Balance and job-esteem of job related anomie and job involvement accounted for 33.8% of resignation trend of production employees in the automotive parts industry.