The Predictor of external environment, occupational stress, job satisfaction and intent to leave towards organizational commitment

Abstract

The purpose of this article was to determine the relationship between external environment, occupational stress, job satisfaction and intent to leave towards organizational commitment. A convenience sample group of 130 employees of Northport (Malaysia) Bhd. were selected over 2272 of total population at year 2009. A self–administered survey instrument was developed to measure and test the employee external environment, occupational stress, job satisfaction, and intent to leave towards organizational commitment. Using SPSS 16.0, two statistical tests were employed to test study hypotheses. First, by measuring correlation, a Pearson correlation coefficient analysis was used to identify the relationships between predictor and criterion variables. Likewise, multiple regression analysis was used to determine the effect between external environment, occupational stress and job satisfaction among related variables. The findings reveal that job satisfaction, occupational stress and intent to leave does affect organizational commitment. At the same time, occupational stress gives impact to the intent to leave. Unlike external environments, it does not effect on both organizational commitment and intent to leave. Among predictor variable towards the organizational commitment, the job satisfaction were produced strong relationship. Keyword: environment, occupational stress and job satisfaction and organizational commitment