Available online at www.pelagiaresearchlibrary.com Pelagia Research Library Advances in Applied Science Research, 2012, 3 (6):3788-3791 ISSN: 0976-8610 CODEN (USA): AASRFC 3788 Pelagia Research Library A study on wastage of manpower in educational institutions of Darrang District, Assam, India Bhanita Das* 1 , Kishore K. Das and B. K. Baruah 2 1 Department of Statistics, Gauhati University, Assam, India 2 Department of Chemistry, Gauhati University, Assam, India. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT This study is conducted on 150 employees from educational institutions (30 educational institutions (Primary Schools, Private Schools, High Schools, Higher Secondary schools and Government and non Government colleges) taking at least 5 individuals from each institutions). The relationship among job satisfaction, length of service (LS) and turnover intention are investigated to determine statistically significant relations. To study wastage of manpower we have taken length of service and percentage of leaving a job of the employee as main factor. The results of this study reveal various affecting factor of wastage of manpower as well as Job Satisfaction. Key words: Wastage of manpower, length of service, Job satisfaction, Turnover intention. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION The wastage of manpower in various organizations has been considered as a major problem for the organizations particularly in Assam. Due to increasing trend in population and unemployment and lesser interest towards skill development courses of the people of this locality, educated and semi-skilled persons were remained engaged in different fields and changing their jobs frequently. In the present work mainly educational institutions have been taken as the source for monitoring wastage of manpower. District Darrang has been selected in this study using random number table. Information regarding the various affecting factors of wastage of manpower such as length of service, promotion, recruitment, training, working hour, reason of resigning the job, chance of leaving the job have been studied from the selected samples. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the relationships between length of service, percentage of leaving a job and various affecting factors of wastage of manpower. Job satisfactions also have been studied using these factors. Literature review reported that job satisfaction have been studied by various authors to study the relationship between job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention. In this paper, job satisfactions as well as wastage of manpower have been studied using length of service and percentage of leaving a job of an employee. It is stated that job satisfaction is an attitude that individuals have about their jobs. It results from their perception of their jobs (Ivancevich and Matteson, 1990). Besides, the content of this definition involves a strong emphasis on feeling which is also called “affect”. This emotional or evaluative component refers to an individual’s positive, neutral or negative feelings of what might be called the attitude object, or the focus of attitude (Greenberg and Baron, 2000). Some of these definitions cognate with people’s affective response to current job are unidimensional: people are generally satisfied or dissatisfied with their job (Ward and Sloane, 1999).