Investigation of Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intention: A Study of Bahraini Oil and Gas Industry

In the last five years, turnover rate of operation employees in Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has augmented and attend a critical level, particularly with government's early retirement attractive approach. Bapco starts to lose highly experienced who have significant impact on performance company. Moreover, new oil discovery modernization production units push minimize retain talents stay competitive. This study examines how organizational commitment affected Company's intent. The tridimensional model (Meyer Allen Commitment workplace: theory, research, application, Sage, 1997) was used evaluate commitment. addition, Abrams et al. (Personality Soc Psychol Bull 24(10): 1027–1039, 1998) Turnover Intention examine employee intents leave firm. work reports quantitative operations employees. 154 questionnaires were collected, data analysed SPSS version 23. results confirm three dimensions OC TI. These join previous research conclude that can be understand reduce employees'