| This study investigates the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention in Chinese Internet industry. Organizational commitment has been one of the most popularly studied employee attitudes. Yet, most of the organizational commitment studies are conducted in western settings. Hardly any study could be found using a Mainland Chinese sample. This study adopts the Meyer and Allen's (1991) Three-Component Organizational Commitment model to explore the voluntary turnover situation in Chinese Internet sector during this critical time where a bubble-burst economy has caused a personnel shake-up.;The purpose of this study was to examine employees in China's Internet companies, concerning (1) the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention, (2) the relationship between the three dimensions of organizational commitment, namely, affective commitment (AC), continuance commitment (CC), and normative commitment (NC) and turnover intention, (3) differences between technical employees and non-technical employees in the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention, and (4) differences between managerial employees and non-managerial employees in the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention. Two questionnaires combined were used to collect data, Meyer and Allen's (1993), Three-Component Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (TCOCQ and Colarelli's (1984), Turnover Intention Questionnaire. Data were collected from three major Internet companies in China. Hypothesis tests included the Pearson product-moment correlation, Spearman correlation and independent-samples t-test.;The result revealed a significant negative relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention as well as an unequal negative relationship between each component (affective commitment, continuous commitment, and normative commitment) and turnover intention. The result also revealed no significant differences between technical employees and non-technical employees in the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention as well as no significant differences between managerial employees and non-managerial employees in the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention. |
