Corporate Governance and Organizational Behavior Review / Volume 6, Issue 1, 2022
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THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL
JUSTICE ON INTENTION TO STAY:
THE MEDIATING ROLE OF
ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT
Shatha Mahfouz
*
, Mutia Sobihah Abdul Halim
**
,
Ayu Suriawaty Bahkia
***
, Noryati Alias
****
* Corresponding author, Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia
Contact details: Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, 21300, Malaysia
** Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia
*** Indah Water Konsortium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
**** Faculty of Education, Languages & Psychology, SEGI Universiti, Selangor, Malaysia
Abstract
How to cite this paper: Mahfouz, S.,
Abdul Halim, M. S., Bahkia, A. S., & Alias, N.
(2022). The impact of organizational justice
on intention to stay: The mediating role
of organizational commitment. Corporate
Governance and Organizational Behavior
Review, 6(1), 139–149.
https://doi.org/10.22495/cgobrv6i1p10
Copyright © 2022 The Authors
This work is licensed under a Creative
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ISSN Online: 2521-1889
ISSN Print: 2521-1870
Received: 02.12.2021
Accepted: 14.02.2022
JEL Classification: M510, L740, O530,
L220, J080
DOI: 10.22495/cgobrv6i1p10
Retention of employees is substantial for firms to generate
sustainability since losing experienced and skilled individuals
influence the general productivity, and product quality (Noor,
Zainuddin, Panigrahi, & Rahim, 2020). While various researches
have been done regarding this matter, the larger part place on
turnover because of organizational approach, a couple of studies
have been done with the intention to stay. For this reason,
this study incorporates organizational justice, organizational
commitment, and how they relate to expanding intention to stay.
The respondents were picked using a simple random sampling
method. Using a sample of 603 engineers working in Malaysian
construction projects. The data was accumulated through a self-
administered questionnaire and analyzed utilizing structural
equation modeling in IBM SPSS AMOS 23.0. The current study gets
two fundamental outcomes. Firstly, organizational justice and
organizational commitment are positively associated with
the intention to stay. Secondly, organizational commitment plays
a mediating role between organizational justice and employees’
intention to stay. Therefore, employees would be more willing for
intention to stay in fair organizational settings, particularly when
they are committed to their organization.
Keywords: Organizational Justice, Organizational Commitment,
Intention to Stay, Malaysia
Authors’ individual contribution: Conceptualization — S.M.;
Methodology — A.S.B. and N.A.; Formal Analysis — S.M.;
Investigation — M.S.A.H.; Writing — S.M., M.S.A.H., A.S.B., and N.A.;
Supervision — S.M.; Funding — A.S.B., M.S.A.H., and N.A.
Declaration of conflicting interests: The Authors declare that there is no
conflict of interest.
1. INTRODUCTION
When employees leave organizations, they need
to be substituted. This is called employee turnover
(Latif & Saraih, 2016). For the beyond ten years,
the pace of employee turnover has been a nonstop
challenge confronting businesses all around
the world. As indicated by Hom, Lee, Shaw, and
Hausknecht (2017), job turnover in nations like
France (24.4%), Germany (16.5%), the United
States (18.6%), Italy (21%), the Netherlands (15.4%),
and Belgium (15%) has all the earmarks of being