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Mediating Role of Organizational Commitment on HR Practices and Turnover Intention among ICT Professionals


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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is heavily investing in high involvement HR practices to retain and motivate the information technology professionals who are the human capital assets. This study defines a multidimensional HR practices and test its influence on turnover intentions (TOI) of ICT professionals. Organizational commitment is defined either as an employee attitude or as a force that binds an employee to an organization. There are very few studies on the effects of organizational commitment on TOI among ICT professionals. The present research focuses on examining the mediating effect of organizational commitment on HR practices and TOI relationship. The results of this study partially support the prediction. HR practices - compensation and training, has a significant direct effect on TOI and the contribution of organizational commitment to TOI is observed when combined with HR practices in the model. Implications of these results are discussed.

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Organizational Commitment, Hr Practices, Turnover Intentions
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Samson Sam Gnanakkan
Director – HR & Projects Don Business Solutions Inc. Toronto, Canada

Abstract


Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector is heavily investing in high involvement HR practices to retain and motivate the information technology professionals who are the human capital assets. This study defines a multidimensional HR practices and test its influence on turnover intentions (TOI) of ICT professionals. Organizational commitment is defined either as an employee attitude or as a force that binds an employee to an organization. There are very few studies on the effects of organizational commitment on TOI among ICT professionals. The present research focuses on examining the mediating effect of organizational commitment on HR practices and TOI relationship. The results of this study partially support the prediction. HR practices - compensation and training, has a significant direct effect on TOI and the contribution of organizational commitment to TOI is observed when combined with HR practices in the model. Implications of these results are discussed.

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Organizational Commitment, Hr Practices, Turnover Intentions

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