Organizational Commitment and Turnover Intentions: Impact of Employee’s Training in Private Sector of Saudi Arabia

The purpose of this paper is to investigate impacts of training on organizational commitment and turnoverintentions in private sector of Saudi Arabia. The study seeks to focus the relationship between organizationalcommitment and turnover intentions of the employees. A literature review of organizational commitment andemployee turnover provides the basis for the research model and hypotheses. A self-administered questionnairewas used, involving 251 respondents from leading private organizations of Saudi Arabia to collect data andtesting the existing theory. The results provide strong support for the hypothesis that is the negative relationshipbetween organizational commitment and turnover intention. Employees’ training is significantly correlated withorganizational commitment, turnover intentions and the commitment-turnover relationship.The sample waslimited to private organization in Saudi Arabia. It may not be appropriate to generalize the findings across otherpopulations or settings. However, the sample can be viewed as a representative case typical of many otherorganizations in the same industry. The results provides insight into the impact of organizational commitment onturnover intentions in the specific private sector of Saudi Arabia, which might benefit for managers and policymakers of the concerned organizations and in general for the whole sector. The paper studies the problems thatexist in the private sector of Saudi Arabia.