Stay or Out: Commitment and Employee Turnover Intentions among Indonesian Employees

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the role of the working commitment to the intention turnover in employees in Indonesia. The subjects in the study consisted of 111 employees from Borneo, Maluku and Java from various agencies. The average age of employees is 29.64 years with the number of female employees is a total of 61 and male employees are 50. The study was conducted by using a scale commitment of Meyer & Allen, who have 18 items (r = .86) as well as the scale of which has a turnover of Dreher 27 items (r = .93). In general, the results showed that work commitment has a role or significance of 63% of the turnover intention. The role has a negative value which means a highly committed employees has a low turnover intention, and vice versa. Not much different, commitment to play a significant role in the employee turnover intention of Borneo, Maluku, Java or partially. In addition, work commitment of Indonesian officials is at the level of medium to high, while turnover was at low levels on the whole among the employees coming from Borneo, Maluku, and Java