The Influence on Intention to Stay from Job Embeddedness and Demands - Abilities Fit - to Affective Commitment as a Mediation Variable

• Main Authors: Tien, Shin-Chiao, 田欣巧
• Other Authors: Yu, Chien ; Yu, Chin-Cheh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/we7684

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 科技應用與人力資源發展學系 === 103 === How to retain talents has always been on the top-concern list for any businesses. Nowadays, in order to reduce turnover rates and increase employee retention rates, there are ways have been implemented to innovate and create new relationships between employees and employers. However, “a disease known is half cured”, organizations must realize what are the factors that affect employees’ willingness to stay so that administers could strategize accordingly. The research of this essay aims at exploring the connections among job embeddedness, demands-abilities fit, and intention to stay, while taking affective commitment as an mediation variable, analyzing whether job embeddedness and e demands-abilities fit are mediator effects toward intention to stay. Moreover, the objects of this research are people who work in finance industry. In total, we have collected 583 valid samples by hand-delivering. The results showed: (1) Job embeddedness has a positive impact on affective commitment. (2) Demands-abilities fit has a positive impact on affective commitment. (3) Job embeddedness has a positive impact on intention to stay. (4) Demands-abilities fit has a positive impact on intention to stay. (5) Affective commitment impact on intention to stay. (6) The mediation of affective commitment in job embeddedness effecting on intention to stay is only partial. (7) The mediation of affective commitment in demands-abilities fit effecting on intention to stay is complete. Finally, we hope the result of this research could help administers reduce turnover rates and, more importantly, have further understanding on the factors influencing employees’ willingness to stay. Furthermore, by improving all aspects in an organization to help employees better cope with for employment compatibility, so that employees will have higher level of affective commitment to retain and endeavor themselves.