Abstract:
This study aims to identify and analyze the effect of Organizational Commitment
(Affective Commitment, Continuance Commitment, and Normative Commitment) on
employee Turnover Intention. Being explanatory research design, the population and
sample in this study are Gondar town revenue office the data are collected by survey
method using a questionnaire distributed to all six sub-cities including the main office
with a total of 203 samples. From the total of 203 employees within the city case in the
Gondar town revenue office, a closed-ended questionnaire was distributed for a sample
of 201employees selected using the stratified sampling technique which a probability
sampling method using convenient is sampling. Where 201 responses were collected and
used for final data analysis. The data collected from the questionnaire were analyzed
using descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis with the help of IBM's
Software Package for Social Science (IBM SPSS Statistic 23). The outcome of the
analysis revealed that organizational commitment is positively related to turnover
intention. Furthermore, while three dimensions of commitment have a positive
relationship to the dependent variable i.e. Turnover intention; continuance commitment
was found to have a strong positive relationship with turnover intention while the other
two effective and normative commitments had a moderate positive relationship. The
study recommends that organizations should emphasize minimizing the high level of
turnover intention by engaging and committing the employees for better productivity.
