Investigating the Relationship between Organizational Learning Culture, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention in it SMEs

IT workers are critical to IT companies because of their knowledge and experiences in fast- changing nature of technology. Turnover can be a crisis for all industries and companies, particularly for IT Company, because losing a worker can cause financial and non financial problems for IT companies. The purpose of this descriptive, co-relational and cross-sectional study is to gain a better understanding of the relationships between organizational learning culture and job satisfaction of employees, and their impact on turnover intention at IT companies in, Iran, in 2011. Data were collected by distribution of three questionnaires based on job satisfaction survey (JSS), organizational learning culture (DLOQ) and Turnover intention (SLI) among 132 employees of these IT companies through a simple random sampling method. Correlation analysis was done on the data gathered from the questionnaire based on 95% of confidence level. The results of the study indicated that, there was a significant and moderate positive correlation among the seven dimensions of organizational learning culture and job satisfaction. The correlations between the seven dimensions of organizational learning culture and turnover intention were all negative. Job satisfaction also had a strong negative relationship with turnover intention. Further, the present study suggests that there is an indirect impact of organizational learning culture on turnover intention when job satisfaction is considered as a mediator. As organizational learning culture and job satisfaction have strong correlation with turnover, it is important to reinforce them by applying the right human resource policies.