The impact of organizational justice on intention to stay: The mediating role of organizational commitment
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Shatha Mahfouz 
, Mutia Sobihah Abd Halim , Ayu Suriawaty Bahkia , Noryati Alias
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Abstract
Retention of employees is substantial for firms to generate sustainability since losing experienced and skilled individuals influence the general productivity, and product quality (Noor, Zainuddin, Panigrahi, & Rahim, 2020). While various researches have been done regarding this matter, the larger part place on turnover because of organizational approach, a couple of studies have been done with the intention to stay. For this reason, this study incorporates organizational justice, organizational commitment, and how they relate to expanding intention to stay. The respondents were picked using a simple random sampling method. Using a sample of 603 engineers working in Malaysian construction projects. The data was accumulated through a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed utilizing structural equation modeling in IBM SPSS AMOS 23.0. The current study gets two fundamental outcomes. Firstly, organizational justice and organizational commitment are positively associated with the intention to stay. Secondly, organizational commitment plays a mediating role between organizational justice and employees’ intention to stay. Therefore, employees would be more willing for intention to stay in fair organizational settings, particularly when they are committed to their organization.
Keywords: Organizational Justice, Organizational Commitment, Intention to Stay, Malaysia
Authors’ individual contribution: Conceptualization — S.M.; Methodology — A.S.B. and N.A.; Formal Analysis — S.M.; Investigation — M.S.A.H.; Writing — S.M., M.S.A.H., A.S.B., and N.A.; Supervision — S.M.; Funding — A.S.B., M.S.A.H., and N.A.
Declaration of conflicting interests: The Authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
JEL Classification: M510, L740, O530, L220, J080
Received: 02.12.2021
Accepted: 14.02.2022
Published online: 15.02.2022
How to cite this paper: Mahfouz, S., Halim, M. S. A., Bahkia, A. S., & Alias, N. (2022). The impact of organizational justice on intention to stay: The mediating role of organizational commitment. Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review, 6(1), 139–149. https://doi.org/10.22495/cgobrv6i1p10
