A study on shift work, organizational commitment and intention to quit in the aviation sector

In this study, which was carried out on shift workers in the aviation sector, the relationship between organizational commitment and turnover intention in shift workers was investigated. Accordingly, it has been chosen employees of TGS (a.k.a Turkish Ground Services) company which is ground services business of İstanbul Airport in İstanbul province as target population. The sample has also been constituted from employees who accepted to attend to the study with the simple random sampling technique. In total, 397 surveys has been subjected to the analysis. Prepared survey form consists of three sections including the demographic attributes, the organizational commitment and the intention of leaving from work scales. SPSS programme has been used in the analysing of datas acquired in the result of surveys. As a result of the research; A statistically significant and negative relationship was found between organizational commitment and turnover intention in shift workers. When we examine the relationship between gender with the organizational commitment and the intention of leaving from work, a statistically significant relationship could not be detected. Yet a significant relationship has been detected between age, marital status, job title, work shift, experience, level of income with the organizational commitment and the intention of leaving from work. Besides, a significant relationship could not be detected between the intention of leaving from work and educational level while detecting a significant relationship between the organizational commitment and the educational level. Results which contributes to the literature has been obtained in the fields of working in shifts, the organizational commitment, and the intention of leaving from work with this study which was carried out by considering the aviation industry. KeyWords: Business Administration, Working in Shifts, Organizational Commitment, Intention of Leaving from Work, Aviation Industry