THE LEADER-MEMBER EXCHANGE ROLE IN THE MEDIATION RELATIONSHIP OF THE ROLE OF STRESS TOWARDS TURNOVER INTENTION WITHIN COOPERATIVES IN THE REGENCY OF TABANAN

ABSTRACT Cooperatives represents one of the main driving forces of economic development on the basis of a local economy. The forward and backward movements of a „Cooperative? can be affected from the level „Role of Stress? for employees and „Leader - Member Exchange? within an organisation. Employees are categorised as important assets within the „Cooperatives? in which needs to be managed well to ensure reductions of costs that emerge due to factors of finding new employees. From this it is needed to understand the factors involved that can effect the occurance of „Turnover Intention?. This research is undertaken to determine the role of „Leader-Member Exchange?, in regards to the mediation of the „Role of Stress? towards the „Turnover Interntion? of employees. This research is undertaken through using 75 (seventy five) Cooperatives in the Regency of Tabanan. The data gathering is undertaken through the spreading of quesionaires that uses a 5 points Likert scale to measure 12 (tweleve) questions. The analysis technique that is applied is the „Path Analysis?with the method of analysis using the Partial Least Square (PLS). The result of this research will help indicate (1) Role of Stress having a positive effect and significance towards the Turnover Intention, (2) Role of Stress having a negative effect and siginificance towards Leader-member Exchange, (3) Leader-Member Exchange having a negative effect and significance towards Turnover Intentions, (4) Leader-Member Exchange mediating partially the effect on Role of Stress that can effect Turnover Intention.