Drivers of Turnover Intention in Public Sector Organizations: Pay Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment and Employment Opportunities

The study was designed to examine the relationship of Pay Satisfaction, organizational commitment and perceived employment opportunities with Turnover intention and pay satisfaction with organization commitment. The instruments used to measure the variables of the study were Demographic Data Sheet and Pay Satisfaction scale, Organizational commitment scale and turnover intentions scale. The sample consisted of 90 employees (39 Males and 51 females) from public sector organizations of Islamabad. It was hypothesized that higher the pay satisfaction lower will be the turnover intention and higher the organizational commitment lower will be the turnover intention. It was also hypothesized that higher the pay satisfaction higher will be the organizational commitment. It was also hypothesized that higher the perceived employment opportunities higher will be turnover intentions. In order to determine the relationships, results were analyzed by the use of Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient. The overall results revealed significant relationship between the variables and supporting all the hypotheses.