Relationship between Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention among Health Workers in two selected local government areas of Ogun State, Nigeria

Abstract

The level of satisfaction individuals gets from their jobs is related to the desires to commit oneself to such job and organization as well as to how they feel in the desires to either maintain that particular job or to leave the organization altogether. The study examined the relationship between job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and turnover intentions among health workers in Ijebu North and Ijebu-Ode Local Government Areas. 150 participants took part in the study comprising 17 males and 133 females. The study made use of the Minnesota Satisfaction Question – Short Form (MSQ-SF), the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) and the Turnover Intention Scale. The result revealed a significant relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment (r = (148), R = .316, p>.05). The result also revealed that there is no significant relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intentions among health workers in Ijebu North and Ijebu-Ode Local Government Areas. (r = (148), R = -.016, p>.05). Also there was no significant relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction (r = .098, R = -.014, p>.05). It was recommended that employees should be given the opportunity to contribute their own thoughts and independent judgments to the way work is scheduled and organized, because they will regard their work as meaningful when a degree of independence and freedom of choice is allowed in the performance of their tasks which will enhance the employees’ feelings of membership, satisfaction with their jobs and reduce their desires to leave their jobs for other ones.