Job Satisfaction and Job Involvement as Mediators of the Relationship Between Psychological Climate and Turnover Intention

The studies pertaining to Human Resource (HR) management in India have revealed a variety of factors that significantly affect employees’ attitude towards their job not the least of which is their perception about their immediate job environment or in other words, the psychological climate. This study posits the two attitudinal variables of job satisfaction and job involvement as mediators between psychological climate and individual employee’s turnover intentions. For the purpose of study, data are collected from 357 managers/executives and subject to multivariate data analysis procedures. The results showed that psychological climate is a statistically significant predictor of turnover intention. The results also ascertain that job satisfaction and job involvement are important as mediators in transmitting the influence of the predictor variables to the criterion variables.