Open AccessThe effect of the meaningfulness of work on job satisfaction, job stress and intention to leave
Author(s) -
Hatice Necla Keleş,
Mine Afacan Fındıklı
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
global journal of business, economics and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2301-2579
DOI - 10.18844/gjbem.v6i2.1370
Subject(s) - psychology , turkish , job satisfaction , social psychology , scale (ratio) , work (physics) , applied psychology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics
The meaningfulness of work is defined as the importance of the purposes of work in people's view of life and attitudes. There are studies about the meaningfulness of work that describe not only its significant and positive contributions to the meaningfulness of people's lives, but also as taking pleasure in work, which has a variety of cognitive, emotional, behavioral and economic benefits. The meaningfulness of work defined as the importance of the purposes of work in people's view of life and attitudes can be connected with variables in the field of organizational behavior. The purpose of this study is to determine the effects and correlations among job satisfaction and intention to leave with a path analysis to be carried out as part of a research model for these variables. It is intended to contribute the literature by analyzing the effects and correlations among the variables with a structural equation model and to obtain data about employee behavior in organizational life. The universe of the study is comprised of employees of an insurance business in Istanbul. This study will use the following data collection tools: the "Work and Meaning Inventory" by Steger et al. (2012), the "Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire" developed by Weis et al. (1989) and adapted to Turkish by Oran (1989), the "Intention to Leave Scale" by Wayne, Shore and Linden (1997) and “Perceived Stress Scale” developed by Cohen, Kamarck & Mermelste (1983) and adopted to Turkish by Bilge et al. (2007). Keywords: Meaningfulness of work; job satisfaction; intention to leave; job stress