Occupational Stress And Job Embeddedness Among Personnel Of The Ghana Navy: The Moderating Roles Of Job Satisfaction And Commitment.

Abstract

The Ghana Navy over the last few decades has recorded some early voluntary release and Absence without Leave (AWOL) incidences. These turnover behaviours do not only affect the service but affects the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and the entire nation and therefore needs critical attention from high command and policymakers. This study investigated the relationship between occupational stress and job embeddedness and the possible roles that job attitudes (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) play in this relationship among personnel/ratings of the Ghana Navy. Four hundred and fifty-six (456) personnel were sampled from the units and commands of the Ghana Navy. The study used the quantitative cross-sectional design in which personnel were required to respond to items on a set of questionnaires measuring demographic factors, occupational stress, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and job embeddedness. Pearson Correlation analysis, Standard Multiple Regression Analysis, Hierarchal Regression and Regression analysis using Haye’s Process Macro (for assessing the moderation effects) were used for analyzing the statistical data. The results indicated that occupational stress, job satisfaction and organizational commitment recorded significant positive relationship with job embeddedness with organizational commitment strongly predicting job embeddedness compared to job satisfaction and occupational stress. Furthermore, it was indicated that job satisfaction and organizational commitment played a moderating role in the relationship between occupational stress and job embeddedness such that the relationship was enhanced at higher level of the moderators. The findings and implications were discussed and recommendations were made for future research.

The Ghana Navy over the last few decades has recorded some early voluntary release and Absence without Leave (AWOL) incidences. These turnover behaviours do not only affect the service but affects the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and the entire nation and therefore needs critical attention from high command and policymakers. This study investigated the relationship between occupational stress and job embeddedness and the possible roles that job attitudes (job satisfaction and organizational commitment) play in this relationship among personnel/ratings of the Ghana Navy. Four hundred and fifty-six (456) personnel were sampled from the units and commands of the Ghana Navy. The study used the quantitative cross-sectional design in which personnel were required to respond to items on a set of questionnaires measuring demographic factors, occupational stress, job satisfaction, organizational commitment and job embeddedness. Pearson Correlation analysis, Standard Multiple Regression Analysis, Hierarchal Regression and Regression analysis using Haye’s Process Macro (for assessing the moderation effects) were used for analyzing the statistical data. The results indicated that occupational stress, job satisfaction and organizational commitment recorded significant positive relationship with job embeddedness with organizational commitment strongly predicting job embeddedness compared to job satisfaction and occupational stress. Furthermore, it was indicated that job satisfaction and organizational commitment played a moderating role in the relationship between occupational stress and job embeddedness such that the relationship was enhanced at higher level of the moderators. The findings and implications were discussed and recommendations were made for future research.