THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENTS ON RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN WORK SATISFACTION ANDINTENTION TO QUIT

ABSTRACT : Intention to quit is the desire of employees to move from one work place to another voluntarily.Present study is aim at examining the effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on employees’intention to quit. The number of respondent were 49 employees of Bali Restu Dewata, a Tour OperatorCompany which have been operating in Badung Regency,Bali. Regression method and sobel test wereemployed to examine research hyphotesis. The results uncover that job satisfaction positively correlated withorganizational commitment; organizational commitment has negative correlation with intention to quit; and jobsatisfaction has negative correlation with intention to quit. Sobel test result confirmed that organizationalcommitment plays mediating role on relationship between job satisfaction and intention to quit. Implication ofresearch findings are : company need to pay its attention on employees’ need and adress its effort to improve itsreward policy, leadership training to build employee trust and provide confortable work environment.

Keywords: employee commitment ,work satisfaction, intention to quit