A Study On The Link Between Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment And Turnover Intention

If the employee turnover rate is too high, many competent employees who intend to resign, many works can't be accomplished smoothly. How to build up a pleasant atmosphere and inspire the employees' potential, increase their job satisfaction, reduce the turnover rate, in order to bring the maximum benefits for the organization becomes the most critical issues.The study refers to the relationship among job satisfaction, organizational commitment and turnover, analyzes the job satisfaction, organizational commitment of production managers in manufacturing industry enterprises in Xiamen, and their impacts on the thoughts of quitting and turnover intention.It focuses on the comparison of differences among the different personal attributes and the organizations. The study indicates that the managers were mostly dissatisfied on the working environment of their organization and the administrative style of their president, the managers in foreign investment enterprises were more satisfied than those in domestic private enterprises in terms of job satisfaction. The study also finds that the factors of administrative style of president had a significant impact on the organizational commitment oftmanagers, and the organizational commitment in turn significantly influenced the thoughts of quitting.According to the result of the research, this research are covered with the following suggestions:1. Adjust the administrative style, and give production managers more opportunities to participate in company's decision making.2. Set up fair and reasonable diversified performance evaluation and promotion system.3. Set up the retention plan.4. For the employees that have higher education or have higher position, the company should design more challenging, diversified, self-controlled jobs, and provide them more opportunities to use different skills to complete various jobs, in order to increase their sense of job satisfaction.5. Reinforcing the managers' cohesiveness, in order to reduce their turnover intention.The suggestions to the following researches:There are many factors that influence a manager to resign, this study is only focused on job satisfaction, organizational commitment and personal attribute variables, other variables such as organization climate, culture, leadership behaviors etc. have not been researched.This study suggests that the following researches can concentrate on the turnover intention in many other cases, and analyze with multiple variables.