Relationship between Affective Commitment and Turnover Intention among U.S. Healthcare Internal Auditors

Abstract

Reducing employee turnover has become a top priority and a challenge of many organization, regardless of the industry. Therefore, identifying factors that affect employee turnover has been in the center of debates in both scholars and practitioners' perspectives. The purpose of this study was to contribute to this debate by examining the relationship between affective commitment and turnover intention. The sample consisted of 92 internal auditors within the healthcare industry in the United States. Correlation coefficient was computed to examine the relationship between the two variables. Using the Bonferroni approach to control Type 1 error, a p value of less than .005 was required for significance. The result of the correlation analysis show that the correlation between affective commitment and turnover intention was negative but not significant (r=-.187, p=.075).