Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intentions of Academic Staff Employee at Woldia University, Ethiopia

Background: Organizational commitment is job related attitudes that have received considerable attention from researchers around the globe. This study attempted to investigate the relationship among the organizational commitment, and turnover intentions among academic staff employees of Woldia University. Embedded research design was used. Methods & Materials: A total of 206 (male=187 and female=19) academic staff employees were taken by stratified sampling from the university and the researcher also used semistructured interview by selecting long experienced participants purposively to cross check the quantitative result by following qualitative approaches . After cleaning the data, analysis was conducted using Pearson correlation and Multiple Regressions along with descriptive statistical techniques. Results: Workers commitment has been found to have statistically significant negative association with turnover intentions (r=-.516, p<0.05). Moreover, organizational commitment has better predictive power to level of turnover intention among academic staff employees. The interview result also shows that the overall commitment of academic staff was normative rather than affective and Continuance level of commitment and high level of turnover intentions.