Correlation between New Employees’ Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention in Indonesia

  • Regina Maria Angundjaja College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Qian Yan College of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Keywords: Organizational Commitment; Turnover Intention; Human Resource Management

Abstract

Turnover is avoided as much as companies can because the cost to employer of turnover are high, includes turnover in new employees. This research’s purpose is to measure whether there is a relation between organizational commitment and turnover intention on Indonesia’s new employees. The result showed that a significant relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention, r = -0.553, n = 131, p < .01, two tails.

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Published
2017-11-09
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Angundjaja, R., & Yan, Q. (2017). Correlation between New Employees’ Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention in Indonesia. Journal of Research in Business, Economics and Management, 9(4), 1725-1731. Retrieved from http://scitecresearch.com/journals/index.php/jrbem/article/view/1323
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