The Correlation between Leadership Approach and Employees Turnover Intention in Software Industry at Bangalore City, India

The software industry focuses on close contact among clients and managers. That is a human oriented industry, for which the experienced leaders inspire the employees through continuous training and encouragement and lead them by vision. Therefore, leader's leadership approach is the critical factor for the success of the organization. This research explores the relationships among leader's leadership approach, subordinate's personality characteristic, and job stress and turnover intention. We also identify the role of the variable of personality characteristic and job stress respectively. We adopt SPSS to do data analysis and draw conclusions as follows, Leadership approach has significant influence on job stress; Job stress has positive relationship with turnover intention; Leadership approach has negative influence of turnover intention; Personality characteristic has no moderating effect on the relationship between leadership approach and job stress; Personality characteristic brings no moderating effect on the relationship between job stress and turnover intention; Job stress has mediation effect on the relationship between leadership approach and turnover intention.