Organizational Culture as Mediator on the Relationship Between Job Stress and Employee Retention in a Public Healthcare Institution : COVID-19 Context

This study’s primary goal is to determine organizational culture’s role in mediating the relationship between job stress and employee retention in a public healthcare institution during COVID-19. The researcher uses a non-experimental quantitative research design with a mediation approach. Adapted survey questionnaires are distributed to 202 respondents from Tagum City’s affiliated government hospitals. Stratified sampling is used to select the respondents. Mean, Pearson r and Sobel test are the statistical tools utilized to determine the results. The statistical findings reveal a high level of job stress and an extremely high level of employee retention and organizational culture. It also displays a significant relationship between job stress and employee retention, job stress and organizational culture, and employee retention and organizational culture. Furthermore, organizational culture partially mediates the relationship between job stress and employee retention.