The Impact of Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment on Intention to Turnover in the Sri Lankan Hospitality Industry: Perceptions from the Generation Y View Point

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on intention to turnover according to the perceptions from generation Y in the Sri Lankan hospitality industry. The methodological approach of this study was based on the quantitative approach and the type of investigation was correlational. The respondents were limited to 256 generation Y employees who were employed during the period of the study. Data composed of self-administered questionnaire containing 19 closed statements with a five point Likert type scale. The descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis were applied among dependent construct and independent constructs. The results of the study revealed that there are a significant impact of job satisfaction (15%), and a significant impact of organizational commitment (4.8%) on intention to turnover, according to the perception of generation Y employees in the Sri Lankan hospitality industry. Further, the findings show that there was a significant joint impact of job satisfaction and organizational commitment on intention to turnover (15.5%). Moreover, the statistical results relating to hypotheses, revealed that there was a moderate negative relationship between job satisfaction and intention to turnover (r =.-0.467 p < 0.01). Also, there was a weak negative relationship between organizational commitment and intention to turnover among generation Y respondents of Sri Lankan hospitality industry (r =.-0.441, p < 0.01). Implications of the findings and suggestions for future research studies have been presented.