Title:
THE EFFECT OF THE DEPRESSION LEVELS TO THE EMPLOYEE TURNOVER INTENTION IN THE LOGISTICS INDUSTRY

Authors:
Mesut Atasever

Abstract:
Logistics as labour intensive industry one of the fastest growing and the largest industry in terms of revenue generated and employment rate. On the other hand logistics industry is one of the most attractive career fields around the world. Due to the importance of logistics industry employee turnover rate should be less. Due to the flexible working conditions employees have some mental disorders such as stress, anxiety and depression. There are many negative effects of depression on employees such as fatigue, productivity and turnover. Rising of the turnover rate may cause decreasing satisfaction of the customers, institutional weakness and decreasing of institutional profits. The purpose of this study is to determine the depression level of the people who work at logistics sector and to measure the effects related to turnover intention. In this study, survey is used as data collection method. The questionnaire was made with 104 people in the cities of ?stanbul, ?zmir and Mersin where the logistics companies are concentrated. The study findings show that there is a positive correlation between the depression in employees in logistics businesses and the turnover intention.