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The Mediating Effect of Organizational Commitment on the Relationship Between Work Life Balance and Intention to Leave

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This study aimed to measure the mediating effect of organizational commitment on the relationship between work life balance and intention to leave. The study population is consisted of (800) working women in king Abdullah university hospital. To collect the primary data questionnaire survey was distributed to (200) working women and (144) questionnaires were returned. The study uses ordinary least square (OLS) technique to run simple regression and test hypothesis where the work life balance is used as independent variable and intention to leave as dependent variable, for mediating effect the study used the organization commitment variable. After analysis, study found that affective commitment has fully mediated the relationship between work life balance and intention to leave. While normative commitment has partially mediated the relationship between work life balance and intention to leave among working women in King Abdullah University Hospital. In light of previous findings, the researchers recommends adoption of work life balance program in Jordanian hospitals, to improve the motivation and commitment of women employees for better organizational performance.

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  1. Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Al Al-Bayt University, P.O. BOX 130040, Mafraq, 25113, Jordan

    Hanan Mohammad Almomani

  2. Business Management, Business Administration Department, School of Business, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan

    Hasan Aleassa

  3. Business Faculty, Mu’tah University, Karak, Jordan

    Kamel Mohammad Al-Hawajreh

  4. Department of Financial and Administrative Sciences, Irbid University College, Al-Balqa’ Applied University, Irbid, Jordan

    Fatima Lahcen Yachou Aityassine

  5. Policy, Planning, and Development Program, Department of International Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, 2713, Doha, Qatar

    Raed Ismael Ababneh

  6. Business Management, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Finance and Business Administration, Al Al-Bayt University, P.O. BOX 130040, Mafraq, 25113, Jordan

    Sulieman Ibraheem Shelash Al-Hawary

  7. Department of Management, College of Business, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, 27272, UAE

    Muhammad Turki Alshurideh

  8. Business and Finance Faculty, The World Islamic Science and Education University (WISE), P.O. Box 1101, Amman, 11947, Jordan

    Ayat Mohammad

  9. Marketing Department, Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences, Petra University, P.O. Box 961343, Amman, 11196, Jordan

    Anber Abraheem Shlash Mohammad

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Almomani, H.M. et al. (2023). The Mediating Effect of Organizational Commitment on the Relationship Between Work Life Balance and Intention to Leave. In: Alshurideh, M., Al Kurdi , B.H., Masa’deh, R., Alzoubi , H.M., Salloum, S. (eds) The Effect of Information Technology on Business and Marketing Intelligence Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1056. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12382-5_53

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