Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention of University Teachers in China’s Pearl River Delta

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.297How to use a DOI?

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Job satisfaction; organizational commitment; turnover intention; mediating effect; university teachers in China’s Pearl River Delta

Abstract

Various literature reviews have investigated teachers’ turnover intention in the universities. However, little is known about employee turnover intention within higher education institution in China’s Pearl River Delta. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover intention among academic staffs in higher education institution in China’s Pearl River Delta. In this study, job satisfaction acts as independent variables, turnover intention acts as dependent variable. Meanwhile, organizational commitment acts as mediating variable. This study adopts correlational study survey to answer the three research questions developed. The method of data analysis includes descriptive statistics, mediating effect analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results show that there was a positive correlation between job satisfaction and organizational commitment (0.664, P<0.01), a positive predictive effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment; a negative correlation between job satisfaction and turnover intention (−0.574, P<0.01); a negative predictive effect of job satisfaction on turnover intention; a negative correlation between organizational commitment and turnover intention (−0.656, P<0.01); a negative effect of organizational commitment on turnover intention. Organizational commitment played a part of mediating role in the influence of job satisfaction on turnover intention, and the mediating effect was 0.568. Limitations of the study and recommendations for future research were also presented in this study. This research should serve as a guide to management in higher education institution, especially in China’s Pearl River Delta. Higher education institution should pay attention to human resource construction, improve job satisfaction, enhance employees’ organizational commitment, formulate scientific evaluation and incentive methods, improve decision-making ability and policy-making level, and reduce turnover intention.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinqiang Song
AU  - jiajia Ke
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention of University Teachers in China’s Pearl River Delta
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1628
EP  - 1639
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.297
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.297
ID  - Song2022
ER  -