Examining the Relationships among Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, and Turnover Intention: An Empirical Study

Abstract

This study’s aim is to examine the relationship among job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnoverintention of employees. A model of job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention isdeveloped and tested in one field study. In this study, using a 250 employees of a Turkish manufacturingcompany, were given questionnaires to complete during regular working hours; 188 completed questionnaireswere returned.. Job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intention are popular topics in thestudy of work related attitudes. The main objective of this article is to test the relationships among jobsatisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention. Structural equation modeling to test researchhypotheses is used and the model that has high reliability and validity is developed. The results indicate that jobsatisfaction is one of the most antecedents of organizational commitment and turnover intention and suggest thathigh levels of job satisfaction results in higher commitment and lower turnover intention so job satisfactionpositively influences on affective commitment, continuance commitment, and normative commitment while it isnegatively impact on turnover intention. The results emphasize the need to consider the factors can be havingeffects on the relationship by highlighting to studies conducted on job satisfaction, organizational commitment,and turnover intention.