Impact of Organization Commitment on Turnover Intention: Mediating Role of Job Contentment

Abstract

Basis purpose of this research is to find out the impact of organizational commitment on turnover intension. Literature on organizational commitment and turnover intention depicted that organizational commitment has profound impact on turnover intension. Further influence of job satisfaction as mediator was also investigated. Data was collected through the questionnaires from 200 employees of banking sector of Faisalabad. To test the hypothesis, correlation and regression analysis is carried out using SPSS 20.0. Results of the statistical analysis indicated significantly negative relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intension and significant positive relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Result of the research concludes that job satisfaction partially mediates the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intension.

Keywords: Organizational commitment, affective commitment, continuous commitment, normative commitment, Job satisfaction, turnover intension.