| One hundred forty-five subjects participated in this study to examine the degree to which the relationships between occupational and organizational commitment (predictor variable) and turnover intentions (criterion variable) correlate at a behavioral health care organization located in the southwestern United States. Data was examined using Meyer, Allen, and Smith's (1993) multidimensional survey. Multivariate statistical methods were used for data analysis. This researcher concluded that occupational and organizational commitment can affect an employee's intent to leave an organization. Either occupational commitment or organizational commitment affected employee turnover, rather than both in unison, as initially predicted. An employee's emotional attachment and obligation to the organization at which they work had a stronger correlation to turnover intention than did their emotional attachment, obligation, or cost of leaving their occupation. |
